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Then they took a taxi to Trastevere.
Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.
When pitcher Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and was sure the driver had misunderstood his directions when he announced their arrival at the park.
The roundel has been used for buses and the tube for many years and, since TfL took control, it has been applied to other transport types ( taxi, tram, DLR etc.
Rotor drives initially took the form of a rope wrapped around the rotor axle and then pulled by a team of men to accelerate the rotor – this was followed by a long taxi to bring the rotor up to speed sufficient for takeoff.
Soutine, who had been virtually penniless in his years in Paris, immediately took the money, ran into the street, hailed a Paris taxi, and ordered the driver to take him to Nice, on the French Riviera, nearly 200 miles away.
Seiji Ozawa relates an anecdote: on hearing of the death of the baby daughter of his friend the sumo wrestler Chiyonofuji, Slava flew unannounced to Tokyo, took a 1 1 / 2 hour cab ride to Chiyonofuji's house and played his Bach sarabande outside, as his gesture of sympathy — then got back in the taxi and returned to the airport to fly back to Europe.
Wimsey locates the taxi driver who picked up the General at Lady Dormer's house, and another who took him to the Bellona Club.
Browning took Castle to hospital in a taxi, but doctors were unable to save him and he died shortly after arriving in hospital.
He took a taxi to the hospital by himself, and died that same day.
To complete the renovations, the TSA ordered the shutdown of the ticketing area, so the airport built a full service heated / a / c temporary ticketing tent, it took up the entire 3 lanes out of 6 in front the airport for taxi, pick up and drop off.
On the night of July 25, 1978 Carlos Soto Arriví and Arnaldo Darío Rosado, two independence activists of the Armed Revolutionary Movement ( Movimiento Revolucionario Armado in Spanish ), along with undercover police officer Alejandro González Malavé posing as a fellow group member, took taxi driver Julio Ortiz Molina hostage and ordered him to drive them to Cerro Maravilla where several communication towers were located.
The main violent riots took place in the Western, English-speaking part of the country starting with a " strike " initiated by taxi drivers in Douala, allegedly causing more than 200 casualties in the end.
The couple returned to Chicago in 1978 and, unable to find work, Gutiérrez took up taxi driving full-time.
Unable to find steady income from music, Cochrane returned to Toronto, where he drove a taxi cab and later took a job on a Caribbean cruise liner.
It is said that Dylan took him up on his offer, but the taxi driver dropped him off on the adjacent Crouch End Hill.
The second took place on the morning of October 16, 2005, when a matatu ( taxi minibus ) was struck by a passenger train.
When the driver took a shortcut through the Arab neighborhood of Wadi Al-Joz, a mob of about 40 Arabs surrounded the taxi, smashed the windows, and dragged Grossman out, whereupon they beat him.
The participants took a taxi to the police headquarters and surrendered themselves to the Kempeitai without a struggle.
" Turner took the insult calmly, but Longworth did not and told the taxi driver, " He's taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!
This system takes as input data in the form of GPS traces of the routes that taxi drivers took while working, which include location ( latitude and longitude ), time stamps, and operational status ( with or without passengers ).
After throwing up on color commentator Don Meredith's cowboy boots shortly before halftime, Cosell left the stadium and took a taxi back to New York City.
During Leg 6, Andre and Damon were officially detained when their taxi took them far out of the way in Morocco and they encountered a local official who wanted to seize their passports.
He used to be in the armed forces, although it isn't specified which branch, and only took his current job because of the points on his driving license which meant he couldn't become a taxi driver.

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Greg rumbled down the rough metal taxi strip, and one by one the seven members of his flight fell in behind him.
Montag tries to talk to Mildred as she quickly leaves the house, but Mildred ignores him, gets inside a waiting taxi, and vanishes down the street.
" He was not forthcoming with anything more than cryptic clues, however: " Peter Woodthrope played Estragon remembered asking him one day in a taxi what the play was really about: ' It's all symbiosis, Peter ; it's symbiosis ,' answered Beckett.
Had I warned him about the scaffolding, tomorrow he'd be hit by a taxi.
If I warned him about the taxi, he'd fall in the shower and break his neck.
In 1935 he played the role of a strike-leading taxi driver in a drama by Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty, and his performance was called " dynamic ," leading some to describe him as the " proletarian thunderbolt.
" The employee chases the customer outside, in time to see him climbing into a taxi.
After a drive around town, the taxi pulls over, the customer issues a cursory apology before returning the pen, after which the employee curls up with it in the street, and some of his co-workers come out with a comfort blanket to collect him.
" This unusual remit may have been inspired by the fact that William Beveridge, having just become director of LSE, upon asking a taxi driver to take him to the University of London was met with the response " Oh, you mean the place near the Royal School of Needlework ".
They then shot him and drove off in the taxi, leaving his body on the road.
Based on the character outline, puppeteer Caroll Spinney was inspired by the voice of a New York City taxi driver, hailed when going to the production studio ; when he first got in, the driver asked him " Where to, Mac?
Helen and Klaatu take a taxi to Barnhardt's home ; en route, Klaatu instructs Helen that, should anything happen to him, she must tell Gort " Klaatu barada nikto ".
Then I imagined him picking up people in the land of the living and bringing them to the land of the dead, like he's really just a glorified limo or taxi driver.
Francis Crossen ( 34 ), a Catholic man and father of two, was walking towards the city centre at approximately 12. 40 a. m. when four of the Butchers, in Moore's taxi, spotted him.
As the taxi pulled alongside Crossen, Murphy jumped out and hit the man with a wheel brace to disorientate him.
Consequently, Shing begins harassing and threatening Ho in order to get him to return, including attacking his co-workers at the taxi company, and having Mark beaten severely.
His solution was to hire a taxi driver to come into their apartment with his own key and whose job was to make breakfast for them both, then take him to the WABC studios.
When he says yes, Vicky walks off and leaves him the taxi.
Not long after, Becker was struck by a taxi while attempting to cross a Manhattan street, shattering his right leg in several places and forcing him to use crutches.
During the Second Intifada, Petah Tikva suffered three terrorist attacks: On May 27, 2002, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a small cafe outside a shopping mall, leaving two dead, including a baby ; on December 25, 2003, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a bus stop near the Geha bridge, killing 4 civilians, and on February 5, 2006, a Palestinian got into a shuttle taxi, pulled out a knife, and began stabbing passengers killing two of them, but a worker from a nearby factory hit him with a log, subduing him.

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