Word: droves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mohammed Ayub Khan. Together they rode into the city in an open white Cadillac, past half a million cheering people-women in veils or tentlike burgas, tens of thousands of schoolchildren waving flags, armed sailors and soldiers carefully spaced to prevent unruly exuberance. Down the freshly cleaned streets they drove, past prairies of rubble still redolent with the smell of refugees, even though special squads had worked all night to deodorize the area with scented water and citronella (the refugees had been settled elsewhere), on through the jumbled slums where Pakistani women, their pastel veils and head scarves fluttering...
When Tufts again threatened to close the gap, big Eddie Cuffe took matters into his own large hands and drove to three consecutive layup baskets, two on feeds from Bowditch, at the nine minute mark...
...minute later, Bowditch drove down the right side (he is left-handed), under the backboard, and eased in a backhander to put the varsity ahead for keeps. Fouled on the play, Bowditch had no trouble scoring one more. He is 12 for 12 at the free throw line this season...
...Long Live Peace." In his brief airport statement, Ike delivered his theme message of "peace and friendship in freedom," noted that in the U.S. more than 10 million Italian-descended citizens claim heritage "from the Italian civilization." Then he got into Gronchi's official Fiat, drove the long way into Rome along the Old Appian Way-the historic route. Crowd turnout in the heavy rain: thin. The motorcade rolled through the Gate of San Sebastiano, past the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum, into the Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only...
Last month another mutineer, Lieut. Colonel AH Hamid, decided that destiny awaited him, and drove with his band into the Omdurman infantry barracks crying: "Here is the great officer Ali Hamid." This time President Abboud's patience was at an end. Last week Ali Hamid and four of his accomplices were hanged at Khartoum prison-the first casualties, after one year and 15 days, of the Middle East's gentlest revolution...