Word: drives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that Tanner was able to make a career in a sphere that had known virtually no Negroes marked him as a man of exceptional drive. He was also more fortunate in family background and education than were most U.S. Negroes of the period. Born in 1859, the son of an African Methodist minister, the artist was raised in Philadelphia and attended high school. He became entranced with painting at the age of twelve when he saw a landscapist at work during an outing with his father in Fairmount Park...
...failed to anticipate that the market would tumble after bankers raised the prime rate to 81/2% in mid-May. Many of the go-go funds were loaded with thinly held stocks of nursing homes and computer-leasing firms, which were badly battered by the Government's anti-inflationary drive...
...traffic on Route 128 kept me from getting there on time), but picked up with Freddie Hubbard and his group (unfortunately, so did the rain). It's hard to classify Hubbard's sound; maybe "slight futuristic soul-jazz" comes closest. Two of his pieces--the best two--called "Space Drive" and "Eclipse," are on the group's new album, Black Pearl. It should be worth looking...
...reminding us what was to come that night. And it seemed to pacify, for a while at least, the crowd on the hill behind Festival Field. But as the afternoon wore on into evening (and the traffic backed up for miles and it took two hours to drive four blocks) the crowd on the hill grew and the tension kept building. During the show, small groups did, in fact, continue to rush the gates, the wall was broken in several places, and the crowd inside kept pushing forward (a girl from Englewood N.J. somehow managed to make it from...
Port Hedland today has a population of 5,000, new schools, motels, a drive-in cinema and facilities to handle the mile-long trains that chug in from the mines. It also has an air of rough and easy freedom that is attractive to the miners after the tight discipline of Mount Newman and other camps...