Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city that cultivates Southern mannerisms. The waitresses smile and drawl just that way. The blacks keep the government buildings clean, drive the buses, and increasingly, are the cops. The commercial downtown is a pastiche of Woolworths and cheap department stores. It was into this America that a half million people from another America marched...
...first period, Solomon Gomez took a free direct kick from just outside the penalty area A line of seven Owls gave Gomez virtually no opening to the net, but the Gambian super-star blasted a line drive that smashed off the left post of the goal and caromed...
...second time this fall Harvard's offense was unable to put together a single sustained drive, but its defense still saved it from humiliation by springing loose two punt returns, one for a touchdown, and recovering a fumble deep in Brown territory...
Even Split. After the defeat, the Syndicate made a truce with Indira. But the rivalry flared up again in September after Congress Strategist Kunaeaswami Kamaraj maneuvered one of Indira's supporters out of the presidency of a state Congress organization. In retaliation, Indira opened a drive to fire Congress President Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa, who is a Syndicate member...
Novels about nuns, even if the holy ladies drive Jeeps and play baseball, have a hard time making it. When the nuns are members of a contemplative order, the outlook is bleak indeed. Yet this chronicle of 15 years in an English monastery is an immensely readable book, partly because the way of life detailed here proves as exotic and medieval as Cosa Nostra society, partly because the story moves briskly forward, with only a few lapses into melodrama...