Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back at me. I slouched down in the chair and tried to remember jokes my mother might have liked. Twenty-four hours. Jesus. I got claustrophobic. Twenty-four hours. I tried to stay calm. On the New Jersey Turnpike the tension broke when we passed a good-looking truck driver and one woman in back shouted, "Check it out!" The rest of the passengers hooted and waved. They were away from husbands and families and they were feeling it. I smiled. It was a high school field trip...
...waiting lines there. The leader of the policemen's union had threatened to shut the city down in the contract dispute, but no one on the bus had any second thoughts about going in. As we crossed into Tennessee, Janey's best friend Jan told the bus driver, "Sweetheart, we're going into Memphis no matter what. I didn't come all this way for nothing. I may never come back again...
...Carlton Fisk sacrifice fly, a solo roundtripper off Dwight Evans's bat, and a two-run ICBM homer from Fred Lynn put Boston in the driver's seat with a 4-3 lead through the top of the eighth...
...next few days will be crucial, although the rejuvenated New York Wrecking Crew is certainly in the driver's seat. Both New York and Boston move on to tough territory as the Yankees battle Milwaukee twice while the Sox take on Detroit four times...
...adolescent American girls put aside their good-luck Teddy bears, jumped into the water and swam away with a gaggle of gold medals. No sooner had 500 journalists written stories beginning "Thank heaven for little girls . . ." than the entire U.S. women's swimming team retired to study for their driver's licenses. But in short order, pools were filled with a new generation of water sprites, and America's junior high school swimming juggernaut splashed relentlessly on: five of seven gold medals in the Rome Games of 1960; six of eight at Tokyo in 1964; eleven...