Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dagdigian and his friends drove up with their fathers, but they were put up for the two days during the tryouts. Neither Burke nor Dagdigian received payments for their playing abilities during their brief associations with Junior A hockey...
Every generation in medieval Europe suffered famine. The poor ate cats, dogs and the droppings of birds; some starving mothers ate their children. In the 20th century, periods of extreme hunger drove Soviet citizens to cannibalism, and as late as 1943, floods destroyed so much of Bengal's crops that deaths from starvation reached the millions...
...simple, clear sentence that says what they mean and then arrange those sentences in some orderly fashion," says English Professor Gwynne Evans. "Most of them don't know how to do that when they come here." The discipline was too much for one Harvard student. "It nearly drove me crazy," he says. "I tried to write what I was really feeling and I got all these irrelevant comments about grammar all over the pages'. I ran through the streets of Cambridge weeping...
...Crimson drove inside Brown's ten, and a Brown penalty brought the ball to the five-yard line. On the next play, Gordon executed a keeper around the right end for the score, and Harvard trailed...
...teams then battled through a scoreless third period, but with just five minutes and nine seconds remaining in the game, the Green took over possession at its 35-yard line, and drove downfield for what would have been the winning touchdown...