Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Because the match, irrelevant though it was, irritated that. It's rather tiring, after all, to repeatedly watch the Movement bastardized for popular consumption. And this time the network did a total facejob. It saw the Battle as all sport, a new form of fun and games. And it drove home one important lesson: the Battle is big money. Yes that is what will stick; the Movement soon will be Big Business. Riggs is no dummy. He has secured the popularity of the latest national craze...
...relentless pursuit of the record that has made him at age 39 the single most conspicuous figure in American sports. Last week, 20 seasons older, 30 Ibs. heavier and 2,953 games more experienced than when he hit home run No. 1, Hammerin' Hank drove No. 710 over the left-centerfield wall at Atlanta Stadium. Going into the weekend, with 13 games remaining on the schedule, he was within suspenseful reach of what is being billed as the greatest moments in sports history: the instants when he hits Nos. 714 and 715 to tie and then break Babe Ruth...
...into the 1973 season, Aaron was averaging one home run for every 16 at-bats. Now he is hitting one round-tripper every nine times he goes to the plate. The old man, in fact, is having a golden autumn. In his last 14 games, Aaron hit six homers, drove in 17 runs and batted a lusty...
This summer Cambridge did exist and it kept on going. Even some atmosphere of the year-round Harvard continued. Directory assistance was still there (along with that wonderful lady with the acerbic British accent). Many professors stayed around till late August's heat and humidity drove them to the mountains and to the Cape. When we walked by the Union this summer, strange and stultifying smells still emanated from the back kitchen...
Clearing his schedule of all other work, he rose as early as 4 a.m. at his brick, Cape Cod-style home in Northwest Washington, then drove to his office in the U.S. Court House to study law books and constitutional interpretations most of the day. He painstakingly revised his opinion several times, and not until noon of the day the opinion was to be delivered did he finally finish. Three hours later, his secretary handed out mimeographed copies to reporters in his wood-paneled chambers. Wearing a dark coat and gray slacks, Sirica stood by, shaking hands, extending polite greetings...