Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bishop Milton Wright lived in a circumscribed world of nuts and bolts. They took care of business, and by trial and error they slowly realized their dream of flight on the sands of the Outer Banks and over Huffman Prairie, a half-mile-long field on the Dayton-Springfield trolley line...
...ferries you via Green Line trolley (if you can get one going north of Government Center) or via the Orange Line (without the nice view) to North Station. Beyond that, you are on your...
...Zollner Pistons eventually became the Detroit Pistons, showing that some nicknames travel well. The Brooklyn Dodgers, named for the difficulty of evading trolley cars in the famous borough, are now the Los Angeles Dodgers, where evading mayhem on the freeways is equally hard. The name Los Angeles Lakers, however, makes no sense at all, though it did when the team was in Minnesota. Utah, with its Mormon tradition, could easily have accepted the New Orleans football team (the Saints, as in Latter-Day Saints and saints who go marching in). Instead it got the New Orleans basketball team, now known...
After half a block, there was indeed a bus stop. The KGB man leaped aboard a trolley as the door was starting to close. As it pulled away, the journalists caught a glimpse of the agent's face peering through a frost- rimmed window, pop-eyed with terror. He had been as frightened as the reporters...
...disguise the scene a little he invited quite a few others. Mrs. Lowell, who had only planned on dinner for four, did her best to disinvite some of the new guests. "She was in a dreadful state of tension and apprehension, having realized that Robert was going off his trolley," Wilson wrote...