Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philadelphia, Penn rallied from a 17-7 halftime deficit to win 27-20. Dartmouth opened the scoring on a 15-yard jaunt by George Grune, but Penn drove 69 yards with Adolph Bellizeare getting the final...
...like Mark Twain: he wanted to be some important business whiz and finally that drove him crazy. And Twain didn't even have people like Twain as precedents. It's easy to have a take on the whole success syndrome...
GLENN ENGLISH. Oklahoma's congressional delegation went all-Democratic as English, former executive director of the state Democratic party, knocked off the highly conservative John N. Happy Camp in a rural Dust Bowl district. English, 33, an oil-and gas-leasing operator, drove some 40,000 miles to meet the area's voters, promising them hard work in Washington even though he frankly admitted that "there's no way I'll solve the problems of the world." The candor was appreciated, but English got a bigger and wholly coincidental lift from a surprising source: a flood...
Later in the trial, a government fraud inspector testified that the house of Cruse had also stretched real Bordeaux by mixing it with low-class Midi red. A truck driver who frequently drove from Bert's warehouse to the Cruse cellars admitted that he had switched papers to disguise the origin of the cheap red Midi wine. Still another witness was a lawyer for le fisc (the French income tax office), who asked that the court fine the defendants $18 million for cheating the government...
...building more buses and other forms of mass transit. If people stayed at home more, there would be a surge in many types of goods, from TV sets to parlor games; although people might avoid long-distance trips, they might well flock to closer resorts and motels. If people drove less, it would be logical to give gasoline a lower weighting in the CPI, thus reducing the impact of a gas tax on wage escalations...