Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They hurled stones at policemen, slashed car tires. Within the hour two more bombs exploded at the Gaston Motel, headquarters of the demonstrations. And Birmingham went to war. Thousands of enraged Negroes surged through the streets, flinging bricks, brandishing knives, pummeling policemen. A white cab driver was knifed, his taxi overturned and burned. A policeman was stabbed in the back and a white youngster's arm was slashed from shoulder to elbow. Negroes put a torch to a white man's delicatessen, fought off firemen as they arrived to put out the blaze. Two Negro homes nearby went...
...chauffeur? asked the prosecutor. That's it, Wynne replied. Exploded Penkovsky to the court: "This is a child's tale. Believe me, citizen judges, I cannot understand why Wynne tries to minimize his role. I didn't need a chauffeur. I could have taken a taxi." Truth was, said Penkovsky, he was already relaying film to British intelligence, and now was in touch with the Americans as well. In London he delivered two bulky packages of state secrets to Wynne, tried on British and U.S. colonels' uniforms just in case he decided to defect, even discussed...
...novel in the form of a parody of 19th century romanticism. The heroine, a schoolteacher named Marian, agrees to take a job as governess in a country house on a remote British seacoast. When she alights from the train, the locals stare at her strangely; no, there is no taxi or bus that runs to Gaze Castle...
...least 62 people on the streets were killed, and of another 120 hospitalized, ten were not expected to survive. Eight of the dead lost their lives from huge hunks of hot metal plunging through the roofs of their homes. Four people in a taxi were crushed and killed by falling wreckage. Ulus Square became an inferno of flame and choking smoke as fires touched off by a burst gas main burned out of control for two hours. Fire trucks and ambulances could not get to the scene, slowed to a crawl by the hundreds of screaming, shoving and panicky people...
...gates of Buckingham Palace will swing open one day this week for a taxi bearing a 9½-lb. tome that to many Englishmen-particularly those whose names do not figure in its 3,088 pages-seems as monumentally irrelevant to postwar Britain as the Domesday Book. To scholars, snobs, statusticians and society hostesses, nonetheless, the 103rd and fattest-ever edition of Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage is an invaluable, intriguing gazetteer to the proliferating aristocracy...