Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford's address to Congress. They wanted a text of the speech. "We are going to test the Administration's new openness," the Chicago Daily News's Peter Lisagor told the guard. "Can we drive in?" The police officer checked, was told it was okay. They drove up West Executive Avenue, sometimes called Limousine Alley, finding a parking space in slots reserved for the Vice President. They got the text, went off into the night as easily as they had come...
...Coast and had made it as far as Colorado. Outside Rocky Mountain National Park I and two other hitchers were picked up by a husky dark-skinned man who said he wasn't sure but he thought he might be going to San Francisco, 1200 miles away. As we drove during the day and into the night, through western Colorado and Utah and into Nevada, I learned that Ed, our driver, had left Cleveland a couple of days earlier. He had tired of his work there, so he had placed all his belongings in the trunk of his 1963 Chevrolet...
...used to be a teamster. Drove one-horse, two-horse rigs. Then when trucks came in I started driving trucks. I was a trucker for 40 years, and it was the best damned 40 years of my life...
Driving a five-axle tank trailer, he drove the course with incredible ease, hitting no barricades and never stopping. He wound the truck backwards through the serpentine course without a moment's hesitation, and finished in nearly three minutes under the allotted time...
Recently, Velasco, 64, has shown signs of being too sensitive for words -the words of an independent press, that is. In June, he closed down Lima's most respected weekly magazine, Caretas, and drove its publisher into hiding. The reason: the magazine had taken issue with the government's view that a luncheon attended by several prominent editors was a subversive gathering. Said Velasco, justifying his action: "The magazine called us paranoid, said we were crazy...