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Word: trolley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed a policeman who was on horseback, and the only path he could clear for us through the crowd was on cobblestones on the trolley track. We ran the last six miles over cobblestone following a horse's ass," he said, adding that he ran in "one dollar sneakers with 15 cent inner soles because there were no running shoes back then...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: A Grand, Old Runner | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...Casbah. For the older, squarer set, there is Burl's Joint, the focal point of a new restaurant opened in May by Burt Reynolds. Inside the huge Omni Hotel complex, Burt's is designed like a Hollywood sound stage, with sets from Show Boat, the trolley from A Streetcar Named Desire and endless blowups of the owner's favorite actor. The sound is radio-oriented, with Sinatra's All the Way and the theme from Rocky alternating with hard rock. Clientele: unchic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hotpots of the Urban Night | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...stretches of track on which you can tell the season by the color of the trees as well as the outergarments of the other passengers. The Green Line's cars are throwbacks to the days when streetcars ruled Boston's thoroughfares, and the swerving, stop-and-go trolley route to Arborway is one of the last true streetcar routes in town. The ride may be pure agony to the impatient, but the Arborway stop at the end of the line is just a short walk from the entrance to the Arnold Arboretum--a Harvard-owned park that supposedly has every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...laughed, looked tall amd tired. All I could think of was: he and she will be sleeping together tonight, in the same bed, touching, panting, writhing...sex! Our host's good fortune seemed beyond bounds. The baby's cries seemed hardly noticeable, at least no more so than the trolley cars which clanged above our heads, outside. Close to midnight, by which time our host and we had drunk silly quantities of wine, his wife appeared in the doorway of what must have been the bedroom, wearing an old flannel bathrobe. "Are you coming to bed soon?" she asked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polonius in a single scull | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

Walter heard their story as the three rode the trolley home. Tom and Mike said it proved a sad stereotype. Going home alone, they were quite willing to believe that. Walter thought to himself that the story proved the Harvard magic name could work. In any case, the word would be passed about Pine Manor women...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Taking the party line on women's colleges | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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