Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dream airline. Pilots do not land; they slap the planes onto the ground. Darkly exotic stewardesses dispense local drinks in tranquilizing amounts. Balkan rates last in ground efficiency, ends its flights at a scruffy terminal in Sofia. The restaurant is poor, but has a captive clientele since taxi service is worse...
...Incredible Foam Man. He wouldn't be the first one. Hobey Baker had to join the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I to find some adventure after Princeton football. And after a couple of years as All-Ivy tailback, Cosmo Iacavazzi had to join the New York Jets' taxi squad to find meaning in life...
Bowie and one committee member fled to the Harvard Square MBTA island and entered a taxi cab, where demonstrators engulfed and trapped them for 20 minutes. Williamson then escorted Bowie down Church St. away from the crowd, but the two men were followed closely by ten of the demonstrators...
Bowie and Joseph E. Johnson '27, vice-chairman of the Visiting Committee and President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, then fled to the Harvard Square MBTA island and entered a taxi cab, where demonstrators engulfed and trapped them for 20 minutes...
...chafed, reports of battles between Lesothian guerrillas and the country's British-led police began echoing down from the hills. Last week, at diamond-rich Kao, rebels reportedly hurled boulders down on a police convoy. In retaliation, the police commandeered light aircraft from Lesotho Airways (a tiny air-taxi operation owned by the government) and, in a throwback to the aerial tactics of 1914, dumped hand grenades on the rebels. Total rebel losses since the fighting began are put at 150; the police admit that two lawmen have been killed and several more wounded...