Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...play the humble-beginnings record, but I studied by kerosene. We had no electricity. There were no paved roads." His father worked as a tenant farmer, a butcher and laborer before the family moved to San Antonio when Connally was ten. There, the senior Connally operated a one-vehicle bus line from San Antonio to Corpus Christi...
Solid Bone. The angry populace soon retaliated. Dentists and doctors turned away electrical workers who tried to take advantage of the slowdown by scheduling appointments. Stores, bars and gas stations refused to serve them. A bus conductor told one power man: "Your lot have put me to a stack of inconvenience. Get off and walk." One of the few signs of support came from unionized workers at London's Evening Standard who walked out and halted late editions in protest against a drawing they considered objectionable. The cartoon pictured the E.T.U. worker as "Homo-electrical-sapiens Britannicus, circa...
...course, Brooks may very well use his reserves in these events in order not to ruin Brown's bus trip back to Providence, but he won't reveal his plans until tonight...
...there were two injuries when a man tossed a hand grenade in the capital's central market place Last month 23 people were killed and 29 wounded when two grenades were tossed in a Phnom-Penh cinema. A grenade on a crowded avenue, and plastique attacks on a bus and a locomotive followed. The attacks, which have killed at least 25 and injured 60, can no longer be regarded as isolated incidents. They represent a new phase in the war, said Premier Lon Nol. "This second phase becomes a test of morale, a ferocious battle of nerves...
...boarded one of the dozens of Greyhound buses that shuttle gamblers daily from California to the casinos on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. Half an hour out of Sacramento, the man shoved a pistol into the ribs of the driver and ordered a passenger to go through the bus collecting wallets and purses. The haul was only $835, but it reflected a savvy knowledge of gambling odds on the part of the robber. He took his loot before the passengers had a chance to lose it to the casinos and make the return trip flat. Greyhound was, understandably, less...