Word: taxicab
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...morning on a bitterly cold fall day in Boston and there has just been an accident in front of the Harvard-affiliated Deaconness Hospital. A taxicab has crashed into a passenger car. The Harvard Police patrol car assigned to the Medical Area arrives at the scene and takes down the cab operator's license. While one policeman remains at the scene of the accident, the other telephones in the license number to the department's Garden Street headquarters. Within minutes, a national check on the driver's record has been performed. Police arrest Bruce Nance, 42, of Boston, on rape...
Thursday, November 24: At 4:29 a.m., Harvard Police patrolling the Medical School area responded to a reported automobile accident on Binney St. in front of the Deaconness Hospital. A computer check of the license of the driver of a taxicab involved in the accident revealed that he had been wanted by Boston Police for five years on rape charges. Police arrested Bruce Nance, a 48-year-old resident of Boston...
After an unsuccessful college experience in which he withdrew after three years. Turnbull began working at odd jobs, including metal work in a factory and driving a taxicab...
...years the taxicab service at the Jidda international airport belied the fact that the city is a booming Saudi Arabian business center. The taxis, often dirty, run down and operated by quarrelsome drivers, gave travelers a poor introduction to the country. Now they have a more genteel alternative, thanks to Jidda Businessman Ibrahim Khonkar. He decided that what Jidda needed was a fleet of London taxis, those boxy, roomy cabs that have become something of a movable landmark in Britain...
...farce. But it is utterly Japanese, a set piece: the drivers handle their dusters like samurai. The scene is a sort of cartoon of the busy, fastidious superego that is supposed to preside in the Japanese psyche. The drivers even wear white gloves. There is probably not a dirty taxicab in Japan...