Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Naugatuck Valley region of southwestern Connecticut. At the Sponge Rubber Products factory, which stretched for two blocks along the Housatonic River, only two guards and a boiler operator were on duty. Suddenly three men, armed and wearing ski masks, appeared inside the building. They abducted the three employees and drove them to a nearby woods, where they taped them to a tree. One gunman hinted to his captives that he and his companions were connected with the radical Weatherman movement...
Silence finally fell across Cambodia's battlefields last week after five years of fratricidal fighting that claimed as many as 1 million casualties, leveled once graceful Cambodian cities and scorched the tranquil countryside. Admitting the futility of further resistance, the remaining leaders of the Khmer Republic drove to a prearranged meeting place-Kilometer 6 on Route 5-and there surrendered to officers of the Communist-dominated Khmer Rouge insurgents. Not since Seoul was overrun by North Korean attackers nearly a quarter-century ago had a national capital fallen in combat to Communist troops...
...paid tribute to the fallen William McKinley. The robust Teddy Roosevelt was part of her wedding, so to speak. At least he was in the White House. Ross did Wilson's bidding. One day in 1917 he harnessed up his team and climbed in the wagon and drove through the flooded Nodaway River to sign up for World War I conscription. They needed him more on the farm, it turned...
...some still unexplained reason, a busload of Palestinian guerrillas drove into the east Beirut sector of Ain Rumanneh. That neighborhood happens to be a stronghold of a fiercely nationalist, right-wing and predominantly Maronite Christian party, the 75,000-member Phalange, whose private 6,000-member militia is the largest in the country. The Phalangists in the area apparently decided that the bus was a provocation, and their militia opened fire, killing 26 aboard the bus and wounding 19. That touched off a battle that raged for five days, embroiling much of Beirut. Before it was over, an estimated...
North Church and at Lexington and Concord, Mass., where 200 years ago the Minutemen drove off the redcoats with the shots heard round the world. Fifes shrilled, drums rolled and the sharp crackle of musket fire sounded across the New England towns as the skirmishes were re-enacted for the benefit of 150,000 spectators. The President reviewed an honor guard of Minutemen on the Lexington Battle Green and placed wreaths to honor both the American and British dead at Concord. He told the celebrators that they had given him "a new spirit and a new strength about our country...