Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office with exciting news. Ritsu Ito, one of the nine Japanese Communist leaders whom the police have sought for three months, was in hiding near Kobe, reported Nagaoka, and an intermediary had arranged for him to interview Ito. At 1 a.m. Nagaoka left the Asahi bureau by taxi to keep his rendezvous. At 5:30 a.m. he was back in the office and pounding out his story...
...Berliners did not seem afraid. "We're past fearing," said a taxi driver. "We made up our minds long ago. All we can do is work and wait...
...women from every one of the United States and 48 other nations swarmed through Cleveland last week. They were all Baptists-Chinese Baptists, Irish Baptists, Italian Baptists, African Baptists and U.S. Baptists -representing the largest (16 million) group of Protestants in the U.S. To the annoyance of taxi drivers, they seemed to enjoy walking; to the regret of storekeepers, they mostly window-shopped. But Clevelanders were impressed to find their downtown streets crowded at 7 a.m., and delighted by the easygoing Baptist friendliness...
Placed on sale early last week in Salvadorean banks, the bonds sold briskly to shop girls, taxi drivers and other small citizens. Less than $400,000 worth were bought by members of the Twenty Families. At week's end the $5,000,000 issue was entirely subscribed...
...Louis he was awake at 5:15, shaved and dressed at 5:30, and out striding along downtown sidewalks at 5:45. At one point during his jaunt he spotted a naval enlisted man named William Hall, standing on the sidewalk in a heated post-dawn argument with a taxi driver. The President tapped the bluejacket on the shoulder and asked: "Where did you get all those battle stars, sailor?" Hall whirled, goggled, hauled himself to attention and stammered an answer: the Pacific. The taxi driver drove off as though he had just seen the biggest traffic...