Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every time Gillian V. Benet '87 wants to transport her six-foot tall harp from her room in Lowell House to Memorial Hall, where she practices, she has to hire a station wagon taxi to make the quarter-of-a-mile trip...
Lesh discovered that Miss Manners' fabled aplomb is bolstered by a ready wit. "Lost in a taxi in a seedy Chicago neighborhood on a Sunday night," Lesh recounts, "we were startled when an egg suddenly splattered on the windshield. Said Martin: 'It couldn't have been for me. I ordered bacon...
...truck cab skidded and broad-sided a taxi at yesterday afternoon on North Harvard St. outside the Business School Approximately 30 gallons of diesel fuel were spilled onto Anderson Road, which leads into the Business School, but on one was injured...
Carlo Rubbia was in a Milan cab, en route to Linate Airport last week and worrying about a possible Italian air-traffic controllers' strike. Suddenly the pop music on the taxi's radio was interrupted by a news bulletin: Rubbia and Simon van der Meer, his colleague at CERN, the great European nuclear research complex, had been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. At first the taxi driver did not believe his passenger's excited claims to be the man in the news. "But when I convinced him," Rubbia recalls, "he offered me a free ride...
...driver, unaware that newest Nobel laureate was riding in his taxi, turned to Rubbia and remarked how interesting it was that an Italian had won the prize...