Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that kooky, rotund lady in Boston who thinks she knows how to put on opera. Sarah is forever racing round town, scrounging money from her merchant friends to pay off some irate truckers or meet an impending payroll. A woman possessed, and sometimes distracted, by her mission, she once drove home in the wee hours after an exhausting rehearsal, discovered for the umpteenth time that she had lost her keys, checked into a nearby motel for a quick snooze, then walked out and forgot to pay. Her mother recently offered her $1,000 in cash if she would only...
...Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) refused in October to sponsor the referendum explaining that the faculty had no plans to debate the issue. Bok and Dean Rosovsky both made statements in the fall making it perfectly plain that they did not want to take on the same forces that drove ROTC from its Harvard base in the spring...
...salesman, however, I was paired with a 19-year old college dropout from Cambridge in the same boat as me, living at home and wanting to get out. He didn't impress me as being too on the ball, but I went along with what he said, and we drove out to Arlington to look for likely "territory" to work that night...
...Division, Kathy Angell, skipper, and Pam Mack drove their Lido 14 to a sixth-place finish. Disqualification in one race hurt the crew's individual chances, although it didn't much affect the team standings...
When that car stalled within a few blocks, the three fugitives seized a blue Chevrolet station wagon, which they drove until they saw a blue Ford van with a for-sale sign in its window parked in front of the Matthews home. Emily Harris walked up to Tom Matthews and said she would like to test-drive the truck. Once around the corner, Emily stopped to pick up her husband and Patty. "Do you know who this is?" Harris asked Matthews. "This is Tania." Tania was the name Patty had adopted with the S.L.A. and used while making several...