Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lights and cross country hookups. The challenge was even greater this time around. Beyond the pressure from regular patrolmen there was added the declarations of the Ohio governor and another governor along the route. Several teams took to subterfuges: one had a real epileptic ride with them as they drove in white coats. There was a letter from real doctors saying that the boy would die if he didn't get to the West Coast to a special clinic in time, and for medical reasons, couldn't fly. It worked. Other entrants dressed in priestly garb, and there were other...
...Eiffel Tower, Mont Blanc and the stained glass windows of the Chartres Cathedral. Many of the evacuees had never been to France, nor did they have relatives or friends there. As the buses pulled away, heading for the airport, the nurses and chauffeurs got back into their cars and drove home to wait for the day, they said hopefully, when their masters and mistresses would return from Paris...
...from 1954-59 in France, where he earned a doctorate in economics at the University of Paris. In 1962, after Sihanouk brought him into the government as Secretary of State for Commerce, Samphan became a hero to young Cambodian intellectuals who opposed the corruption of the existing government. He drove to work on a motorbike and after long hours at the office would go home to work at night in a small upstairs room at his mother's house, while other ministers wallowed in the pleasures of life in the easygoing capital...
...left of the tree. And so it probably did; for the painter, Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) was the son of a warrior family, raised in a Zen monastery and reputedly a great swordsman. There could have been very little difference between the reflexes that drove the blade and those that aimed the brush...
...General Congregation last week, Pope Paul sought to reassure the Jesuits. He summoned Arrupe and his four top assistants to a special meeting. The mood was noticeably different from that of the earlier meeting. The Pontiff explained that "it was this very affection that we have for you that drove us to interpose our authority in the course of recent events." After presenting the Jesuits with a valuable crucifix, he announced that he had approved the four documents he had received so far from the Congregation -including one that could provide a back-door way for more men to take...