Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hundreds of Indians adopted the dance, which supposedly revived dead Indian heroes and drove white men from the Indian lands. The U.S. government became alarmed at the spreading craze, and outlawed the dance...
Barbiaux and Hampe provided solid hitting as Barbiaux garnered 11 hits in 29 trips and the team captain connected on 9 out of 29. Between them, they drove in 14 runs...
...case, Kline and Fogleman have not let theoretical questions stand in their way. Sensing the commercial possibilities of the wing, the two have spent some $14,000 on research and development. They also came very close to alienating their wives. "When he'd fly that thing he drove me nuts," recalls Jane Kline. "I was forever ducking around the house. Those models were always coming at me." As expected, Gary, now eleven, was solidly behind the project from the beginning. He frequently accompanied his father on test flights to baseball fields and parks, even to his father...
...late model rented car went through a manned toll gate on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Someone in the car screamed at the top of his lungs, "I am being kidnapped." The car drove on, but the attendant called the police. Though the troopers had only a poor description of the car, they gave chase and stopped it. As soon as Wes Lockwood saw the troopers, he said, "Thank God you are here." A man in the car, Ted Patrick, apparently falsely identified himself to the police as a clergyman. Wes's father, who was also in the car, showed the troopers...
...style of Horovitz's novel is really not far removed from his playwrighting style. The long flashbacks are very much like actors' soliloquies. His word choice is suggestive; he picks sounds out of the air and puts them into the sentences: "The daggered scoops drove heartily into each bale whoosh picked it up VZZZ carried it to the baths." He repeats words and sometimes even phrases in an effort to tie together ideas, though he is not as successful at it as Kurt Vonnegut. His connections do not possess the absurdity which enables Vonnegut to weave entirely distinct happenings into...