Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first group drove a scant mile to Rue Khaled Ben al Walid. Two apartment buildings halfway along the short street housed the Palestinian leaders marked for assassination: Al-Fatah Deputy Leader Abu Yusuf, Intelligence Expert Kamal Adwan and Palestinian Spokesman Kamal Nasser. All three had attended a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization during the evening...
...Kodak Executive Anthony da Cruz drove down the highway on the way to his plant near Buenos Aires, a green Ford truck suddenly swerved in front of him near a point where four workers were installing a traffic sign. Da Cruz slammed on the brakes and was rammed from behind by a Fiat pickup. The four "workmen" and four men in the Fiat all rushed forward and hustled Da Cruz away. Five days later, just before releasing the 38-year-old Portuguese American near the spot where they had seized him, the kidnapers gave local newspapers a photograph that showed...
Norm Cash and Al Kaline produced three runs with homers and Mickey Stanley drove in another with a bunt single Tuesday, sparking the Detroit Tigers to a 6-3 victory over the Boston...
...Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for his partisan handling of the agency and the Watergate investigation. But his testimony had deeply embarrassed several top Administration officials and disillusioned some of his supporters in Congress. Finally, at the White House's bidding, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst last week drove to the Capitol Hill office of Senator James O. Eastland, chairman of the committee, to sound out Gray's chances. Eastland told Kleindienst that he would make another try to get the confirmation passed, but that he saw no hope...
Harvard rallied in the ninth, but came up a run short. With one away, first baseman Leigh Hogan banged a base hit into right and moved into scoring position on a walk to Jimmy Stoeckel. Following a fly out by Dave St. Pierre, Hal Smith drove Hogan home with a single, putting Harvard on the board...