Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Staubach took off his Navy uniform and joined the Dallas Cowboys to serve on their taxi squad behind Quarterbacks Craig Morton and Don Meredith. Then, in quick succession, Don Meredith announced his surprise retirement and Craig Morton was injured-leaving Staubach to start the opening game of the season against the St. Louis Cardinals. In the first quarter Staubach fired a 75-yd. touchdown pass, and the Cowboys were never headed as they won 24-3. Off and on over the next two seasons, Coach Landry, a Methodist minister known to his players as the "Rev. T.L.," alternated Staubach...
...autumn dusk before the city closes down for the night. Bus service stops at 7 p.m. because arsonists of the I.R.A. have been setting buses afire to lure security forces into ambush. After 10 p.m., all main roads leading to I.R.A. strongholds are closed to private cars, and no taxi will go near them. One who goes in on foot will be searched by patrolling British troops, or stopped half a dozen times in half a mile by I.R.A. women vigilantes, or even get caught in a sudden crossfire. Every night in the slums off Falls Road, all the walls...
...York City voice that, according to Norman Mailer, "could boil the fat off a taxi driver's neck," Bella complains that "the U.S. House of Representatives has the distinction of being the most unrepresentative body...
...Chicago's Midway Airport by taxi. Late in the afternoon, two pilots for the Husky Oil Co., of Cody, Wyo., suggest that I ask their boss, Chairman of the Board Glenn Nielson, for a lift to Cody. Nielson is slightly taken aback but finally agrees, and we have tea and cookies aboard his jet Sabreliner on the way to Cody. Nielson immediately sends me off to a rodeo. A nice...
...clean shot, take it." Two other FBI agents approached Obergfell on the runway and tried to persuade him to give himself up. A priest offered to have the Catholic Church buy him a ticket to Italy. Obergfell grew tense, still clutching the girl and waiting for the 707 to taxi to where he stood. "Get that goddamned plane out here!" he shouted...