Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, when he drove downtown to his office on the 29th floor of the First National Bank in Dallas, he parked his car several blocks away to save a 500 parking fee, and carried his lunch in a brown paper...
...wife Liliane and three of his four children: Lionel, 14, Beatrice, 13, and Nicola, 2; Daughter Dominique, 21, recently made him a grandfather. Andre has a habit of taking long walks and practicing his trumpet deep in the woods. Early one morning after a concert in Munich, Andre drove out to a meadow in the Bavarian woods and began blowing. Three men armed with rifles suddenly ran toward him furiously. They were hunters who had been lying in wait since dawn; Andre had scared off the first deer of the day. His departure was like a Vivaldi fast movement-allegro...
...being forced to resort to prostitution to feed their families; it means families have had to try to sell some of their children to stay alive. Cambodia is also still in a state of military conflict. The Khmer Rouge, who have fought Lon Nol since his 1970 coup that drove Prince Norodom Sihanouk into exile, now control three fourths of the land area in Cambodia. Only massive amounts of American aid--$700 million annually, most of which is military--and the threat of American retaliation prevent the rebels from over-running the few, isolated urban centers where...
...United Arab Emirates. Iran, also present at the Abu Dhabi meeting, has a plan of its own: the posted price would be replaced by a single price for oil, linked to the cost of a "basket" of 20 to 30 commodities on the world market. As inflation drove these commodities up, oil prices would also rise...
...married life came unstrung last year, according to friends, when the stormy temper and uncertain moods of Lady Lucan, the former Veronica Duncan, drove him from the house. Some emotional scenes followed, and the judge in charge of the case made their children wards of the court, although they remained at home with their mother...