Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flecked beige knit dress and matching coat. Showing no signs of strain after the rigors of his Moscow visit (see THE WORLD), the bridegroom beamed as Skowcroft offered a simple toast with Korbel (California) champagne: "Health and happiness to both of you!" Then, accompanied by their families, the couple drove to Arlington for the four-minute ceremony and were whisked to National Airport, where Nelson Rockefeller's jet was waiting to fly them to Acapulco for a ten-day honeymoon...
...qualify them with such hedges as the one voiced by Downs: "Of course, mileage depends on maintenance, driving habits, total weight, road and driving conditions. And you may not get the same results." Indeed, most of the touted mileage figures were set under special conditions. Downs, for example, never drove over 50 m.p.h., and his trip was mostly downhill (the average altitude of Los Angeles is around 800 ft. lower than Phoenix...
Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night With bruised arms and broken rhythm and a beat-up old Buick but dressed just like dynamite, He tried sellin his heart to the hard girls over on Easy Street, But they said, "Johnny, it falls apart so easy and you know hearts these days are cheap...
Virginia Jones, a UFW organizer, told the ralliers to remember 19 farmworkers she said were recently killed when an unsafe company bus drove into an irrigation ditch...
...imperial crown and velvet robes were missing. So was the ride from Buckingham Palace to Westminster in the horse-drawn state coach. Instead, Queen Elizabeth, wearing the same sapphire-blue coat she wore at Princess Anne's recent wedding, drove to the House of Lords to open the new Parliament last week in an ordinary black limousine. The absence of spectacle was something of an accident; there simply had not been enough time to prepare the customary pageantry for the Queen, who had interrupted an official visit to Australia to anoint the election winner. Nonetheless, the austere mood reflected...