Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough sea it was impossible to taxi alongside, so he moved up windward, drifted down on the raft. The 16 men and a woman on the raft were weak after 60 hours at sea without food or water. Distributing them aboard a Catalina built to accommodate only its crew took a lot of doing. Some were stowed in the bombing compartment, one on the deck between the pilots' seats; the woman was put in a bunk...
...British Poet W. H. Auden and a 23-year-old New Jersey taxi driver named George Zabriskie. who has published a volume of poems (The Mind's Geography) ; to write poetry...
...camelback" for use in recapping, either, except for a few "essential" autos. But you still have your old tires. Well, maybe-but Leon Henderson hinted last week that the U.S. might requisition tires from private cars to keep doctors, police, defense workers rolling. Well, you can take a taxi. No-taxi tires wear out too"; taximen predicted they'd be off the streets in a few months...
...figures-but the Army does not know where they are. The Army knows where lots of other professionals are: with its punched index cards, all the Army has to do is to pour cards into a machine and push a button: out comes a list of ex-cooks, ex-taxi drivers, or ex-engineers, as required. But not newsmen. Their talents had not seemed useful enough for separate classification. The thousands of them already in uniform were, so far as the Army was concerned, lost...
...Rock, the most nearly immaculate story in the book, a decent young man betrays all human decency under wifely pressure, in his responsibility as witness of a street fight between a gangster and a proud little taxi driver...