Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crossbones decorating it, Cowan entered the building and confronted 20 men lounging inside. He shot two black employees, Frederick Holmes, 54, and Joseph Hicks, 59, through the chest at pointblank range-from a distance of only 2 ft. "Where is Bing?" Cowan demanded, as he strode into an adjoining drivers' room. There, James Green, 44, another black, tried to run and was gunned down. An Indian immigrant, Pariyarathu Varghese, 33, came running down a flight of steps and was murdered. Cowan put a pistol to the head of another black driver, Charles Haskett, with whom he worked...
Supremely Jealous. Haines portrays Marcia as an ill-tempered, domineering harridan who tried and often succeeded in tyrannizing not only Wilson's staff but the Prime Minister himself. Haines describes Williams "shrewishly denouncing the Prime Minister in front of civil servants," commandeering his official car and driver as if it were her own and once punishing him for waking her up with a phone call in the middle of the night by returning it an hour later "just to see how he liked it." She bullied the No. 10 staff, Haines claims, firing girls whom she found too poised...
...Doctors could only telephone stricken residents or send word through CB operators about what to do for stricken people suffering chest pains and fainting spells. A fire in one house spread to eight others before heroic firemen could drag hoses through four blocks of drifted roads. One truck driver inched his way for two days to cover two miles, to bring fuel to the elderly at the Erie County Home and Infirmary...
Costly Cabbie. Still, Buffalo also discovered its dark side during the siege. There was widespread looting of abandoned vehicles and vacant drug and jewelry stores. On a single night, 60 arrests were made by justifiably angry police. There were some profiteers too. One taxi driver would not take stranded people from the Greater Buffalo International Airport to a motel-a distance of about 100 yards-unless he could round up five-passenger loads at $10 per person...
...battery is the auto's tenderest part: in freezing temperatures, it loses up to 50% of its power. To keep it happy, the car should be garaged at night, with a blanket over the hood or a warming watch light hung inside. To keep the battery charged, the driver should stay in second gear for as long as possible at speeds under 50 m.p.h.; when the car is in high gear, the generator does not produce enough energy to beef up the down-drawn cells. Never try to start the car when any accessories -heater, radio, windshield wipers...