Word: taxies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...village Bastille Day fete, a couturier's salon. Hachette's producers rented a whole railroad to film the champagne country east of Paris, spent four days tying up traffic in the Avenue de 1'Opéra to film the perils of taking a Parisian taxi, and magnificently illustrated the verb "smell" by going to a pungent source-the Paris...
...ineffective treatments before or since." When Dr. Mead was a medical student in 1938, the average length of confinement after delivery was 18 days. "As a result, it occasionally occurred that an otherwise healthy young woman dropped dead of a pulmonary embolism as she was getting into a taxi with her baby to leave the lying-in hospital." Confinement after delivery is now little more than three days, and fatal blood clotting in such cases is virtually unknown...
Escorted by half a dozen stony-faced U.S. marshals, he began walking toward the U.S. Government automobile that was waiting to take him back to his dormitory. "Hey. taxi!" a student yelled. "I wish I had a taxi to take me around campus.'' The hissing intensified, and Meredith quickened his pace. As he reached the car and faced a battery of waiting news photographers, the students broke into loud jeers. "Smile, nigger, smile!" they called. The marshals hustled him into the back seat and the car drove away, followed by two U.S. Army weapons carriers loaded with steel...
...will have 2,400,000 sq. ft. of rentable space-400,000 more than the Empire State Building, though it is only 59 stories high to the Empire State's 102. No building ever had a more accessible location; it can be reached by train, car, subway, taxi, air. Its roof will be a heliport equipped to handle 25-passenger twin-turbine helicopters; through its cellarage rumble some 400 trains daily; and in between, 63 elevators will carry some 25,000 office staffers and executives up and down...
...foreign importers so that they might buy more U.S. goods. 'T am convinced," he said softly [the Continental's engine roared as it took off toward the next traffic light], "that to generate this kind of credit in sufficient volume [a screech of brakes to avoid a swerving taxi], say on the order of a billion dollars a year [slow glide toward the light that had gone red], our great financial institutional investors such as the insurance companies, the pension funds and the savings banks must be induced to cooperate [another jackrabbit start toward the next light]." The self-possessed...