Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen being driven through a tollgate on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, where he cried for help and said he was being kidnaped. Police stopped the car, which also contained two white men and a black. One of the whites convinced the cops that the boy was mentally ill. They then drove on to an apartment in Masontown, Pa., 40 miles south of Pittsburgh. Lockwood was held captive there for 2½ days...
...deprogramming target, Arlene ("Patti") Thorpe, 23, a member of the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation, a commune of several hundred Jesus people in Saugus, Calif., escaped from a marathon ten-day grilling. Her mother, brother and stepfather captured her after a Sunday service at the Alamo commune and drove her 150 miles to what Patti calls "a grim, middle-class motel" in Chul'a Vista, Calif. Ted Patrick, whom she describes as a "softspoken middle-aged man who didn't look like he'd hurt anyone," first took her Bible away from her and then sent...
...strength; but it does not expose the struggle for what it was: a fight against overwhelming political and cultural odds, for a moral purpose. The facts are all there in the musical, but its reliance on music-hall interludes and weak male characterizations undercuts the desperate courage which drove the women to fight until they...
Graham and an unidentified friend said yesterday that DeLuca drove through East Cambridge 20 minutes after the incident. They said DeLuca stopped them and told them he was looking for three assailants...
...drove through Cholon and saw block after block of devastated buildings. Cholon and Gia Dinh had been the operations bases for the NLF battalions attacking Saigon during the 1968 Tet offensive. U.S. fire had leveled both districts in the counter-attacks. We had burned out villages and shot women and children and then built orphanages for the orphans we had made. Only whorehouses sprang up as fast as orphanages during...