Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a health center about four miles away was the only place where medicine could be obtained. Inspecting a relatively comfortable hut, Shriver remarked: "This guy is really well off." He was quietly informed that the hut's owner sustained himself and his family by working as a taxi driver in Bombay, some 800 miles from home...
...biologist, and fell madly in love with a girl with expensive tastes named Ora Zahavi. To keep Ora happy, Beer went heavily into debt and borrowed from everyone in sight. Two of his front teeth were knocked out in a fist fight with Ora's divorced husband, a taxi driver. Beer's increasingly eccentric behavior worried the secret police, and their shadowing of him paid off when Beer met privately with a known Communist agent. A search of his home turned up 60 Ibs. of documents and correspondence. On hearing of Beer's arrest, Premier Ben-Gurion...
...natives were restless, a visitor would never know it from the faces of the jolly, giggling, black taxi drivers, who clustered outside all the hotels, clamoring for attention when a potential passenger strode out to the street. The statistics proved that 60,000 were jobless in Leopoldville; yet carefree Africans drank the local Primus or Polar beer until all hours at the neighborhood taverns...
...humor and insight. All situation comedy is clockwork; what matters is who makes the clock. Like Jean Kerr, the heroine is a compulsive wisecracker: years ago, when her husband made his first tentative pass, she told him, "Let's not start something we can't finish in a taxi on 44th Street." Like Jean Kerr, another character is a fast shuffler of cliches: his recent de parture from Hollywood, explains the aging matinee idol, was an example of "the sinking ship leaving the rats." Like Jean Kerr, a third character is full of electric shock: "A lawyer," he says...
Matilda's Trunk. The Battle of Belgrave Square proved a victory of sorts for the minicabs' cause. The spectacle of big taxis ganging up on a tiny minicab aroused Londoners' traditional sympathy for the underdog, as well as delight at the prospect of cheaper fares. Almost every one had a story about a rude old-style cabby who took him to his destination the long way round, or short-changed him, or passively watched as dear old Aunt Matilda wrestled with her steamer trunk. "That's the public for you," lamented a veteran cabby...