Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After UNH picked up a nine-tenths of a second victory in the 880 relay, Karla Amble put the home team back in the driver's seat by coasting home to first place in the mile with a Crimson record time of 5:05.1. Freshman Kristen Mertz's third-place finish (5:25.6) once again gave the Crimson the lead...
There was still time though, when we were finally all reunited and thrown into the Trailways bus, to make our flight. We spent New Year's Eve in the wilds of Utah in a bus with a driver who was too cautious to ever rush for any flight, let alone ours. We passed the hat around and collected money for him--$50, $100, $122.37--if he got us the airport for our flight. Battle plans were hastily drawn up. The male chaperone-a track coach at Pali High and a former sprinter, would make a run for the gate...
Just before last Christmas, a racing-car driver entered the museum-like sanctum of Tiffany & Co. in Manhattan to buy a diamond ring for himself. A clerk told him that such a purchase would be "vulgar" for a man. The driver argued: "I'm a customer, and your job is to give me what I want." Sniffed the clerk: "What you want is your business. What we sell is our business...
...lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep" has resonances that go far beyond the ice-glazed trees and horse-drawn carriage of this nostalgic volume. With a minimum of color and some gentle line drawings, Susan Jeffers gives her suite of illustrations a tactile quality: the driver's flannel seems as warm as cloth, and the swirling flakes bring a wintry chill and a welcome Frost to every page...
...fantastic selection. The team couldn't have made a better choice. He's a driver. The boys will really rally round him," Ford said yesterday...