Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taxi drivers shall teach sixth and seventh grade...
...camp at Milton was that Freaks coach Gary Farneti was assembling The New Left College All-Stars or something. There was a guy on the roster from Oklahoma State, one from Marshall, a few from Northeastern, and a wide receiver from Villanova that eventually sent The Pork to the taxi squad. Earthquake began to tremble...
When a flight of four Phantoms lands on the twin 10,000-ft. runways, the planes quickly taxi to rows of protective concrete revetments. Once a plane is safely parked, the pilot climbs out and is handed a cold can of Budweiser. While he sips the brew, a yellow forklift truck trundles up with armaments, and the ground crew hurriedly rearms the Phantom with an awesome array of weaponry-iron bombs, rockets and napalm canisters. Normally, the entire operation takes only 20 minutes. The beer never gets warm before the pilot climbs back into his Phantom to take...
...locate an information desk or a pickup point for lost children, if he looks around for these signs. "I got off the plane in Moscow some years ago," Dreyfuss remembers, "and I was able to find my way to my baggage, customs, the bank at the airport, a taxi and the hotel, and I don't speak a word of Russian-all by symbols...
...still an emigree, you might say, but no longer a wandering Jew. I have settled down, it's just that my sense of perspective is different. Taxi-drivers still ask me where I'm from. I don't mind. Culturally, a colleague once described me as being the 'metics' metic'." She smiles wryly. "Although not at all religious. I feel myself very much a Jew. If I need a tag. I guess it would be 'Jewish metic...