Word: taxicabs
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...next morning I caught a dolmus, or communal taxicab (the word literally means 'stuffed') as far as Nevshehir, the bustling center of Cappadocia, and decided to hitch to some of the clusters of rock dwellings--Zelve, Cavus In, Goreme, Ortahisar and others--scattered around the valley...
...This is taxicab territory; unlike other parts of Boston, there was no mass exit at 12:30. The people here had enough money to pay a five dollar cover charge (two drinks included,) fifty cents for a mandatory coat check, $1.75 for additional drinks and eighty-five cents for a pack of cigarettes--cab fares are no problem. Within minutes, everyone is packed in mud-splattered yellow vehicles and wending homewards...
...scenes in screen history. One would have done nicely, but Report to the Commissioner is out to break records, not always deliberately. The first pursuit takes place down Broadway and adjacent side streets when one of New York's small army of street grotesques takes off after a taxicab. This particular fellow has no legs. He has to barrel through traffic on his little wheeled platform, propelling himself with his hands and hitching onto the rear bumpers of other vehicles for extra speed. The whole notion for such a sequence would seem like the creation of some furiously cynical...
...Ambassador taxicab last year, Charlotte Curtis, the editor of The New York Times op-ed page, began arguing the value of an education with the driver. His eight years of Northeastern night school had gotten him nothing more than a piece of paper, he said; had he used his money to purchase a taxi medallion, he could have been a wealthy man, or at least driving...
Perched on the trunk of a taxicab at Broad and Chancellor streets, Mrs. Alberta Taylor, a retired schoolteacher, gazed with admiration at the massive throng-bigger, said some, than the crowds that turned out to mark the end of World War II-and declared: "It's been so long since we've had anything to root for in Philadelphia. I'm so excited and proud...