Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after his replacement arrived from Warsaw, the ex-consul bade them all farewell and proudly displayed two tickets for home, via Venice. Boarding the train next day, he bundled his family off before it reached Venice, roared across the Swiss border in a taxi and hopped the first plane to Johannesburg, South Africa. At the same time the Czechoslovakian Ministry in Rome became impervious to telephone bells. Czech Minister Jan Pauliny-Toth had slipped across the Swiss border, London bound...
...Oklahoma City, Mrs. Clara Pyatt, who lived in a tent with her two children, started to build a shack with tag ends of used lumber. A dozen taxi drivers, some of them on strike, heard of her plight, built her a three-room bungalow in three days...
...nearest lake, where he landed and set out to meet them. After twelve days, the biggest air search (40 planes, one blimp) in Canada's history was over. Said resourceful Sergeant Scalise, thinking of the regular plane he was to have taken: "I guess I took the wrong taxi...
...therefore a Geordie (native of northeast England). As such, he would tend to give his aitches the harsh Teutonic guttural overemphasis of his Nordic ancestors. Never by any misadventure would he drop an aspirate. If he must be rendered phonetically (as you so love to do with cockney taxi drivers, who all seem to say "bloody" every fourth word-and, for the sake of accuracy, I'd like to point out that bloody has been superseded since World War II by a four-letter word as yet unprintable), what he said should have gone something like this...
...given a good description of me and had been instructed to tell me about the opposition movement and the current political situation of terror in Paraguay. Someone in the crowd at the café moved her to grab my arm and hustle me out of the place into a taxi, which we left a block from her home so the destination slip, which taxi drivers have to turn in to the Paraguayan police, would not show her address...