Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...products have been illegally hidden round the country. Earlier this month, a stray golf ball led to the discovery of one hidden store near Osaka; when the golfer scrambled down a ravine in search of the ball, he also found 625 drums of oil. Already two taxi drivers have committed suicide because of fears that the fuel shortage would put them out of business...
...TIME-a shopper in Miami -declined to talk. Many of the individual interviews drew onlookers into the discussion. In a New Orleans neighborhood bar, for example, the quiet questioning of patrons by one reporter quickly turned into a spirited political seminar that included Tulane University teachers and local taxi drivers...
...Stradbally. Leonard then bolted away as two armed, masked men approached. One gunman climbed aboard and ordered the pilot to fly to Mountjoy Prison. After the prisoners were liberated, the copter put down on a deserted race track outside Dublin; the I.R.A. men sped off in a hijacked taxi...
...other side of the lines, Rome Correspondent Wilton Wynn reached Cairo after an 800-mile, cross-desert taxi ride from Benghazi and was one of 14 newsmen allowed to move up to the Sinai front. "After traveling about 25 miles northward along the front," he reports, "our convoy came to a halt when an artillery shell exploded 300 yds. away. Then an Israeli Skyhawk streaked past. Later newsmen saw smoke rising from what they thought was a bomb hit. But the unit commander said it was the plane, which had been shot down." Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, usually based...
During the day, the air is filled with the clatter of jammed streetcars and the bawling of street vendors. Taxi drivers curse other motorists, while the wail of Arabic music from countless transistors is everywhere. Periodically the radio broadcasts a low-keyed statement from the government on the latest developments...