Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disillusionment sets in on the honeymoon. Belle decides she rates a taxi instead of a crowded trolley that reminded her "of the horrors I've already survived." Inquiring into the exact nature of these horrors, George observes that she had never even been hungry. "I have been hungry," she storms. "I'm hungry right...
...Band was polishing off the remains of its box lunches. If Bill Veeck was listening to the game on radio, he was loving it. Turn down Suffolk Downs, and it can be arranged that you lose for the second year in a row to a college that has a trolley line running through the middle of its campus...
...some ways Icelandic, which youthful fans called the Hippie Airline, is a jet-age Toonerville Trolley. Much of its fleet, three leased DC-8 jets and four turboprop CL-44s, is on the wrong side of the aircraft generation gap. Flights from the Continent have been delayed up to twelve hours while a windshield wiper was flown from Iceland. But to its great credit, the line has not had a fatal crash in 18 years of flying the Atlantic...
...dammit!" As they crowded into the elevator. Bator explained "Mansfield knows we favor the other side-the executive. He will be impressed that the author of Presidential Power (nods to Neustadt) is going to him to say that he is now ready to risk 'monocracy.'" The little electric trolley that runs between the Senate office buildings and the Capitol is fun for all ages. The gang poured aboard. Bator smiled. "The last time I rode this trolley, I was lobbying for some obscure textile bill and I thought I was on a foray into enemy territory...
...major ingredient of I.O.S.'s success. He was born in Istanbul to a Rumanian father and Russian mother, who brought him to the U.S. when he was four. Growing up in Brooklyn during the Depression, with a 10?-a-week allowance. Bernie worked nights and weekends to earn trolley fare to school. Later he attended tuition-free Brooklyn College, where he turned socialist and gathered thousands of signatures on Norman Thomas-for-President petitions in 1948. After taking a master's degree at Columbia and spending a year as a social worker in Philadelphia he became a full...