Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About two months ago five men armed with hatchets attacked an ambulance waiting at a red light in Eastern Brooklyn. The driver sped off unharmed and the night swallowed up the assailants as rapidly as it had made them appear. No reason was given for the incident...
...person. Some of the affluent Egyptians who can afford a summer home in Alexandria are uncomfortable about the disparity between their country's two nations. Says one wealthy, Harvard-educated Cairene: "I feel like a foreigner when I'm with the Egyptian lower class. When I meet my driver every day, I ask him about his family, and that is about all the conversation we can make together. We have nothing in common to talk about, nothing to share...
Released from prison in 1948 and cashiered out of the Egyptian army, Sadat took any job he could land: baggage porter, truck driver, used-tire dealer. By now he was divorced from his first wife and in 1949 he married Jihan Raouf, the beautiful, 15-year-old daughter of middle-class Anglo-Egyptian parents...
Indeed, the people at Synanon are treated much as if they were interchangeable automobile parts, and Dederich is certainly in the driver's seat. He makes the rules as he goes along, and the members never know what is coming next. "Chuck is marvelous," says Terri Haberman, 30, who has lived at Synanon for nine years. "He has this amazing quality of being able to articulate what we want to do before we even know what it is we want...
Many miners seem determined not to skimp on Christmas. Karen Perrine, 23, is one of about 50 women who work in the mines in Greene County, Pa. Since her husband Linn lost his job as a truck driver several months ago, she has been the family breadwinner, and now she is out of work. It took considerable agonizing, she admits, before she and Linn decided to spend $35 for a toy truck coveted by their son Craig. "If you've ever seen a little boy's eyes light up like they did when...