Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement attributed to George M. Sovington, a taxi driver, and read to the jury, said that Hurd shouted "Let's get it over with," shot the Negro, reloaded and shot him again...
...What do you want to go to Flushing Meadow for, honey?" a Manhattan taxi driver asked a TIME researcher last week. "I'm going to the United Nations," she said. "Well," he said with a wink, "that used to be quite a lovers' lane...
...recreations are bourgeois. He loves to read, frequently culling quotes for his speeches (favorite sources: Dante, Lincoln, the Bible). He loves soccer, and is rumored to write an occasional sports column under a pseudonym. Sometimes he strolls out to a simple pizzeria called La Carbonara, frequented chiefly by taxi drivers. Characteristically, he has broken with the darkling tradition of Communist revolutionaries, and does not play chess. Instead, he likes to bowl and play scopone (an Italian card game). His party comrades like him. They sincerely call him Il Migliore-The Best...
...find a few fenders bumping into each other, that's all," prophesied Judge Edward A. Counthan, counsel for the Cambridge Taxi Company, as he commented on yesterday's City ruling which threw former private taxi stands open to all back trade...
...trouble developed during the first day of operation under the new rule, as drivers pulled in and out of the four main stands in the Square without incident. Tempers were rough, however as dispatchers for the Cambridge Taxi Company claimed that "people will go right on choosing the cabs they always have...