Word: droves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President took a chrome steel spade that was inscribed: Here, in the Heart of America, Dwight D. Eisenhower learned the Lessons of Youth which shaped his rise to stalwart leader and fearless fighter for the rights of man in the era of liberty's greatest trial. He drove the spade into the ground and turned over the first pile of Abilene earth on the plot where the $3,000,000 Eisenhower Library will stand (said he, when photographers asked for the inevitable "one more": "I'm halfway down to China now, fellas"). At a luncheon later, he spoke...
Until 1891 Luluabourg belonged solely to the Lulua, a tribe of warriors who hated work in any form. Then a pair of nomadic Arab tribes invaded the area, driving before them a batch of captives from the unwarlike Baluba people. When the Lulua finally drove the invaders off, the captives settled down happily in Luluabourg as voluntary serfs of the Lulua -a state of affairs that persisted until last January, when the downtrodden Baluba finally began to listen to Albert Kalondji, a Baluba politician who told them that they deserved to own the land they tilled...
...Mississippi-born, Tulane-educated Dr. Carl Edward Sills, 27, interning in Jackson, Miss., passed through Plains every time he drove along Highway 280 to visit his in-laws in Savannah. To both Carl and Elizabeth Hadden Sills, Plains looked like the kind of place where they wanted to settle. In the middle of an April night, they broke a Savannah-Jackson journey, talked to Dr. Logan and James Carter, 35, the town's biggest businessman. Assured that there was plenty of scope to build a practice and that the townspeople would cooperate, the Sillses soon made their decision...
Armed with five offensive plays and Union box lunches, "Taylor's Rabble" drove down to Milton early yesterday. Between quarters of the game the confusion was especially great, as Milton players about to enter angrily demanded their borrowed helmets back from the freshmen...
Everything was perfect. This would be the night, he reassured himself. As he drove to the mixer, Dudley planned his line of attack to get a date for the Princeton game...