Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without pay, so for ten to fifteen hours a week I worked with an urban planner whose specialty was commercial signs: billboards, neon signs, electric lights. I worked for him for nine months, helping him to write a book, but it was terrible. But it was PTS that drove me to law school. I felt it wasn't concrete contact with people, that it was no real part of the struggle. I had no skills, only a certain glibness. Law school gives me a whole range of skills. All left groups need legal advice. And I realize that without...
Dwight Evans knocked in three runs while Mario Guerrero and Bernie Carbo drove in two each in the opener. Catcher Carlton Fisk wallopped a two-run homer in the ninth inning of the second game to give the win to Reggie Cleveland...
...pressure for Nixon to resign drove the White House to denial after denial of reports of imminent presidential action. An exasperated Ronald Ziegler, the President's press secretary, finally tried to still the rumor tongues by declaring of Nixon: "His attitude is one of determination that he will not be driven out of office by rumor, speculation, excessive charges or hypocrisy. He is up to the battle, he intends to fight it, and he feels he has a personal and constitutional responsibility to do so." White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig was a little more cautious. In what seemed...
...ominous girlhood and into an account of her relapse-which brings a return to the asylum-before the reader, by now totally in the grip of the author, really admits that Richard the good may in fact be Richard the bad, a brother whose sexual advances perhaps drove Sister Meg insane in the first place. Thereafter, as Meg is re-examined and taken away in a straitjacket, the book erupts with dramatic clues that flare backward and forward through the narrative like thin, ignited trains of gunpowder, creating any number of tantalizing questions. Among them: Did Richard invent...
With St. Pierre at the plate, Hogan pilfered his seventh EIBL base of the year, giving him the league crown in that department. St. Pierre then drove a double to left field, driving in Hogan with what seemed to be nothing more than an insurance...