Word: drove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular policemen who were herded into the caravan of trucks one night last week knew nothing of their assignment: they were simply told that they were being moved out into the country. But as the trucks drove through the streets of Accra, the officers in charge would order them halted at certain houses, would declare that there was something strange going on inside, and would then march in and arrest the owner. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah's Voice of Ghana told his people just what the mysterious roundup was all about. A plot, by something called the "Zenith Seven...
...scientific team from a block of ice in the Arctic. Getting the news this time required extraordinary speed. From his post in Anchorage, Correspondent Bill Smith flew to Fairbanks, waited in 10° weather for the arrival of part of the I.G.Y. team. From Boston, Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens drove to Westover Air Force Base to meet returning Strategic Air Command rescue planes. Smith buttonholed a group of the rescued airmen, got his interview, put it on the wires to New York. Correspondent Mehrtens was invited to dinner with the rescue crews at Westover's Officers' Club. Her reporting...
Toward the middle of the field two squads were scrimmaging. Stephen B. Cohen '61, a husky fullback, drove through a maze of tacklers for nearly fifteen yards. A few minutes later he repeated the effort. Further up the field the "A" squad was sharpening its offense. A speedy little performer barked signals and deftly pitched out to a halfback. The quarterback's name was Charles D. Ravenel...
School of No Knocks. In Milwaukee Ronald O. Huff drove into a filling station, told the attendant "never mind the the gas." pulled out a pistol and robbed him of $33, was caught by police after his car ran out of gas eight blocks away...
...blame for such tricky practices does not all lie on retailers. Everybody is a little at fault. Says Chicago B.B.B. Vice President Aubra Johnston: "The customer wants to think he drove a hard bargain. The retailer helps him kid himself. And the retailer and the manufacturer get together to back up their inflated price." Many a merchant blames his competitors, says he would like to stop, "but I have to do it to stay in business." In rare instances, store executives are hoodwinked by their own buyers. One San Francisco department store found its buyer offering ladies' wool coats...