Word: jitney
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...jitney license is required by the state of Massachusetts for all private transportation providers who follow a fixed route with stops. While the jitney license is mandated by the state, it is up to local officials to issue and enforce the licenses...
...Welty shopped almost daily at the old Jitney-Jungle grocery story only a few blocks from her home. Fans too timid to knock on her front door often went to the store and waited for her to appear. But Welty was always gracious to her adoring fans, particularly young writers. As her health declined, her doctors ordered her to post a sign at the entrance of her home forbidding visitors without an appointment. But Welty, always the gracious southern lady, thought the message was too curt. Beneath the warning, in a spiderly script, she had scrawled a penciled note...