Word: metered
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...about $60. This old guy had hit every bar on Mass Ave., up and down. He'd go into the bar for about an hour. He'd ask me if I wanted a beer. I'd say I just wanted my money; he'd tell me to keep the meter running. He started out with about $80, but by the time he was done he was crocked and broke. I took a check from him--he was about 50 years old and pretty distinguished looking. He wrote me a check for about $60. But it bounced like a rubber ball...
Crossing the Charles at Anderson Bridge, Arthur reaches across and taps the top of his fare meter. The display light is burned out. "That's an old meter--they call them one armed bandits. I've seen them jump two bucks at a time. I think there's a loose wire in there somewheres." But it's his cab, not his meter, that's been jumping tonight. As he pulls into Harvard Square, Arthur is flagged down again, this time by a large, distracted man, who looks extremely angry. "How much to Lake Street? How soon...
...seemed kind of embarrassed, so I said, 'Hey, you want to go find some ladies? Don't be embarrassed. She's cool.' I took him downtown, and he told me to run into a packy to get three sixes--all the time he made me keep the meter going. He picked up a hooker, and we ended up back at the Commander. We all just sat around his room and watched t.v. while he, like, psychoanalyzed this hooker. Didn't touch her all night. Then he bought us all continental breakfasts and gave me $70. He was a nice...
...University deprives the city of parking meter revenue as well as "robbing the public of parking spaces in a highly congested area," Crane said. The council then ordered city manager James L. Sullivan to consult with public works officials and Harvard representatives to settle the dispute...
...bronze, but her ten-speed is golden. At least that is the way it looked after the 20-year-old blade and bike speedster finished first in the women's world cycling championships in Sallanches, France. Beth, who placed third in the women's 3,000-meter speed-skating competition at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, began bicycle racing only three summers ago, along with her quintuple-gold-medalist brother Eric, 22, as a way of keeping in condition for skating. Now she enjoys the sport as an end in itself-and as another means to Olympic gold...