Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hill with G.O.P. Chairman George Bush, he felt better. So did Congressman Les Arends, who reported on the problems of farmers from his Illinois district. Texan John Tower thumped for the need to increase beef production. New Hampshire's Norris Cotton told the story of how a farmer drove 100 miles to talk to him because he thought Cotton was close to Nixon and could deliver the message. Well, now he could. We once paid farmers to kill animals, the fellow told Cotton. That was wrong. Why don't we turn it around now, do something to build...
...They get newspapers, they get the radio, they get books, and they get allowances. But I am sorry to say that they have been segregated. I use the word sorry sincerely. I didn't like to do it, but [Bangladesh Prime Minister] Mujibur Rahman's chauvinistic policies drove me to this painful decision...
...attempt to put the disappointing performances of the two principals out of my mind as I drove home, I tried to think of players whose work I had seen but whose performances as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth I most regretted missing. I extrapolated that I would have most admired the Macbeths of Laurence Olivier and Ian Keith, and the Lady Macbeths of Florence Reed and Dame Sybil Thorndike. Well, there will be more productions of Macbeth; and, unlike Macduff in the just-cited scene, I have not lost my hopes...
...Recently I drove a fully loaded four-cylinder 1971 Volvo 2,000 miles on interstate highways at a fairly steady speed of close to 70 m.p.h. Owing to the prevailing wind pattern, the mileage on the west-to-east half of the trip was 22 miles per gallon, while the east-to-west mileage was 20 miles per gallon. It has occurred to me that we could solve a number of our fuel and pollution problems by having a large number of Californians return to the East in small cars...
...drivers in last week's contest between the Vasco da Gama and America teams were typical of the heterogeneous lot attracted to autobol. One was a cab driver obviously venting pent-up aggressions, while two others were doctors who drove as if they were bent on drumming up some business. Though no one has yet been killed in autobol, bruises and broken ribs are regularly dished out by such cunguceiros (bad guys) as Vasco da Gama's Walter Lacet, a director of TV soap operas...