Sentences with phrase «sat on the public bus»

As I sat on the public bus on the first day of my voyage I could not help but grin stupidly, perhaps naïvely, at the concept of having arrived from New York to this overwhelmingly pale - faced nation to hear the music of one of America's most divisive black rappers.

Not exact matches

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

The public transport system, and the infrastructure on which it sits, is more than just trunk train lines and airports - around two - thirds of public transport trips in Great Britain are actually made by bus — that's 5.2 billion trips a year.

It's best thought - of as a device to use at home or while sitting down on the bus / train, rather than when standing up on public transport with one arm clutching a rail.

But if you want to punish your kid for being too loud or disruptive on a school bus or other kind of public transportation, then Busdriver should be a good game to sit him / her down in front of and show that it's difficult enough for the driver as it is.