Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skill and a jury's unpredictable sympathies. About half the time, in fact, juries in personal-injury cases decide for the defendant rather than the person claiming to be hurt. Yet some juries are markedly munificent. A Philadelphia jury gave $500,000 to a man injured in a taxi crash who claimed he suffered "excessive pain" in his back when anything touched it, even his clothing. A San Diego woman, arms and legs paralyzed, blinded in one eye, her speech and hearing impaired by a collision with a police...
According to Carsie Hall, an attorney for the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC), the three students, all Negroes, left a Jackson cafe in a taxi driven by Dewey Short (allegedly known as "Short-change"), and were told the fare would be $1 for the trip. When they arrived, however, Dewey insisted on a $1.50 fare...
...farthest thing from anyone's mind when the Lakonia left Southampton. Most of the passengers were elderly Britishers off to enjoy Christmas in the sun; three honeymoon couples were on board, as well as schoolboys joining their parents in Madeira and a group of five London taxi drivers on holiday. On the first day at sea, Captain Mathios Zarbis, 53, ordered the only boat drill held during the cruise. Only the constant trouble with the Lakonia's electrical system gave reason to suspect trouble ahead...
...Ghosts. Shakespeare, had he attended the Roman opening, might well have attributed the play to Francis Bacon. But Zeffirelli unashamedly claims that he has "found a vivid portrait acceptable to the layman, to the nonintellectual, to workmen, to taxi drivers. Our Hamlet can be identified by contemporary humanity...
...assassination to to applaud Verdi's Masked Ball. Citizens held indignant meetings to decide what to do about ministers who issued malicious statements about the city. The school board fired--later rehired--the teacher who reported her student's applause at the news of the assassination. And a taxi driver admonished the Boston Herald's George Frazier for leaving Dallas on the morning of Sunday, November 24th. "You might miss some excitement around here. After all, Dallas folks don't take kindly to having their city made to look bad by somebody from Ft. Worth." He wasn't mistaken...