Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failed in the primary four years earlier, and his opponent this time, Republican Incumbent Dewey F. Bartlett, was a millionaire in his own right and well financed by oil interests. Yet Hall persisted, showing the same determination that got him through the University of Tulsa law school (he drove a Pepsi truck), and then saw him become Tulsa County's chief prosecutor...
Despite the recent wave of popular unrest, Indonesia is far better off than it was under dictatorial President Sukarno, whose government was overthrown eight years ago. Sukarno drove the country to the brink of bankruptcy; today it has a foreign exchange surplus of $500 million, an 8% growth rate and a 25% inflation rate (v. a crushing 635% in 1966). Jakarta's main thoroughfare, the Jalan M.H. Thamrin, is lined with modern hotels and high-rise office blocks...
When farmers brought in the most abundant harvest in U.S. history last fall, the Nixon Administration confidently predicted that agricultural supplies would finally be ample enough to slow down the year's runaway food prices. They were right-for a while. But suddenly all of the forces that drove up the cost of eating in 1973 so relentlessly are at work again; foreign demand for U.S. agricultural products is running higher than expected, for example, and the cost of livestock feed has risen sharply. Just for good measure, the energy crisis has added at least one new woe: farmers...
Stone's discipline drove his occasional coworkers crazy. One assistant, who lasted a record ten months on the job, tells how he lived in fear of 7:30 a.m. phone calls from Stone who would want to know the assistant's reaction to some small item he had already caught in the back pages of the third newspaper he had read that morning...
Nasal Howl. From the moment they shamble onstage to begin their low-key performance, Dylan and the Band are in complete control of the audience. Dylan's early folk-rock numbers, punctuated by Band standards like The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and Up on Cripple Creek, are knocked out with an almost blase professionalism. But if Dylan is short on emotion, he makes up for it in energy. Shouting into the microphone in his haunting nasal howl, he spits out his message like a cobra. Since neither the performers nor the songs need introduction, there...