Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kroc must have been kidding when he told your reporter that we renamed our unit Mac's Place. The name we used was The Big M. Ray was also being facetious when he told your reporter that he drove us out of business. My brother and I had retired two years previous to the sale, and were living in Santa Barbara, Calif. We had turned the operation of the San Bernardino unit over to a couple of longtime employees of ours who operated the drive-in for seven years. Ray Kroc was always a great prankster and probably couldn...
...having any other job and not wanting to miss out on any rewards, I got up early the next morning and drove out to Staten Island for an interview...
...student on May 2 did try to circumvent the blockade and see the Marine recruiter. Gene Felner, a B.U. student, says that as police cleared the way for this potential recruiter they accidentally drove one woman on the blockade into the building. When students crowded around to find out what had happened to the woman, the police began driving off demonstrators, arresting 12 in the chaotic process...
...last contest of the 1954 World Series, and the New York Giants had a deciding 3-0 edge in games over the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland had two outs and a man on third when the batter drove a long fly ball to deep center field. Willie Mays made one of his patented "basket" catches. Thinking there was only one out, he then wound up and fired a perfect strike to Catcher Wes Westrum at home plate in hopes of catching the runner trying for home (who was already dejectedly trotting toward the dugout). A Cleveland sportswriter turned to the boys...
...cats in the $100 front-row seats, bedecked with signs that read WHISKEY, WOMEN AND RIGGS and WHO NEEDS WOMEN?, sat back and gleefully awaited a rout. It came, but not in the fashion that they or almost anyone else expected. King moved swiftly to the attack. She drove Riggs back to the far corners of the court, whipping him back and forth along the baseline like a bear in a shooting gallery. She fired low volleys at his feet, destroyed his famous lobs, put away almost every shot within reach. "I never could get over her head," Riggs later...