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Word: droves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forays, the bank robbery was apparently meticulously planned and coolly and professionally executed. Police believe that the bank had been carefully cased beforehand, presumably by some of the women because they would be less likely to be recognized. On the crystalline morning of the holdup, the bandits drove into the Sunset district, a neighborhood of middie-class homes and small businesses, in a green Ford station wagon. They were followed by four other S.L.A. members in a red Hornet sports car. The bank opened at 9 a.m., and at 9:50, the five marched into the bank building. They were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Hearst Nightmare | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...black men and a white woman dragged the screaming girl from the apartment she shared with Fiancé Weed near the Berkeley campus of the University of California. They badly beat Weed on the head with a bottle, stuffed Patty into the trunk of a stolen car and drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Hearst Nightmare | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...could get them out. He was only a young kid and a bit of a romantic." Inspector Wicken was taken with the idea, on the theory that this might widen the net: "He told me to play along with it." In January Lennon and O'Brien drove to Birmingham to reconnoiter the Winson Green prison, where one of the prisoners was held. "I told Pat to get out and take a photo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Informer | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Koontz scattered seven hits in the contest, the first of which was Leon Goetz's single in the first inning that drove in the Crimson's first run for a quick lead. Other than the first and last innings, the only other time Koontz was in trouble was in the sixth when he gave up back-to-back two-out singles to Dave St. Pierre (the only Harvard player to get two hits) and John Friar...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Army Nine Tips Crimson, 4-3 | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

Carl McNutt, the captain and designated hitter, drove in a run with a single and two more scored as Harrell's pick-off attempt to first went astray. The fourth and final run came in on Gary Miller's double, and that was all for Harrell, who exited in favor of Walsh...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Army Nine Tips Crimson, 4-3 | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

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