Word: westbound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...break. "We all know we're working on borrowed time," says one of the owners, who also doubles as a bus driver. "One of these days we'll be found out, and it will be over." At Big Spring, Texas, we have to trade drivers with the westbound hip pie bus. Dave, the night driver, has to get home to Portland. He passes a tequila bottle around as he leaves. "Well folks, it was really organic." Sniffs his replacement: "Smells kind of moldy in here." Very true...
Traffic, normally accommodated by three lanes in either direction, will be channeled into the westbound side only, while the other section is being repaired. The eastbound side will then be opened for traffic and work will begin on the westbound side...
...home. Truckers who heard a strange voice jabbering away over the Citizen's Band radio frequency in Missouri recently were listening to none other than Muhammad All. "This is Big Bopper," Ali broadcast. "Watch out for Smokey Bear [truckers' code for a state trooper] at marker 139, westbound on Interstate...
...raspy voice shatters the static, like the roar of a Mack truck rolling by a Volkswagen: "Breaker, break to any westbound diesel. Is the chicken coop open up ahead?" The answer crackles back from the cab of an 18-wheeler lumbering across Indiana: "It's open and the hen is inside the little white church...
...Peterborough, a few passengers change for Adelaide. There the yard-masters have the maddening job of sorting out rolling stock for three different gauge tracks. In Gladstone, east-and westbound trains stop side by side to swap crews. "Be careful you get back on the right one," warns the chief conductor, Joe Ford, as he spots a passenger alighting dangerously between the two identical silver liners. By nightfall the train is heading into the "back o' beyond," where tiny settlements along the track still depend on a fortnightly supply train called the "tea and sugar...