Word: drives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year's extremely sucessful recruitment drive lured a group of talented freshmen to the shores of Blodgett Pool and quickly transformed the squad into a real Ivy League championship threat...
Under the MIC program, an 18-year-old Hartford fellow just getting a license to drive his new Chevy Citation, for example, pays exactly the same as a 35-year-old Hartford housewife climbing behind the wheel of the same model car for the first time. Drivers will receive premium reductions for each year of accident-free motoring, up to a maximum of five consecutive years. MIC estimates that people under 25 will pay an average of 55% less than they have been paying...
...some of Losey's heavy seriousness. Missing are the wit and verve, the "elate darting rhythms" with which Shaw said Mozart conveyed the spirit of the work. Here the music is not as much help as it might be, since Lorin Maazel conducts it with such grim, unrelenting drive. (The complete soundtrack has been released in a three-LP set by Columbia...
...when Mullins stopped a teen-age driver in downtown Miami, relieved him of his valuables, stuffed him in the car trunk and headed for Jackson Memorial Hospital. There he grabbed a nurse and pushed her into the car, but the woman slid out the opposite door before he could drive off. By now police radios all over the city were crackling: Look out for a white Dodge Dart with an arm protruding from the side of the rusted trunk. Mullins ditched the Dodge, flagged down another motorist, pistol-whipped him and took his car. Minutes later Mullins appeared...
Faced with the mysteries of suicide, Friedrich tentatively offers such explanations as Freud's death drive and Emile Durkheim's theory that with the decline of Christian faith in the 19th century, suicide ceased to be a damnable act. The author seems to share Henry Adams' preference for the European 12th century and its security of belief as expressed in the glory of Gothic architecture. He does not assert that descriptions of the dark side of the Yankee mind, the haunted battlefields of the Civil War and the avarice of the Gilded Age as the disturbing context...