Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns announced bravely, "As far as I'm concerned, this is the last devaluation." Many speculators clearly did not believe him. Bursts of late selling drove the dollar's price down against the Swiss franc, Dutch guilder and Italian lira. Through Wednesday, the West German Bundesbank found enough buyers of dollars to unload some $950 million of the $6 billion in unwanted greenbacks that it had been forced to buy just before the devaluation, but on Friday it had to buy dollars again to support the price...
Substitute Jean Wilkinson, playing in the last game of his collegiate career, then stole the ball from the Tigers and drove in for an easy layup and his first points of the game. Guard James Brown, also playing in his last Harvard contest, then intercepted an inbounds pass with 24 seconds remaining and repeated Wilkinson's feat...
...trustees then refused it at $100,000. But for Curator Henry Geldzahler, it was "undoubtedly the greatest Smith on the market." It had been a star item in the huge centennial show of New York art that Geldzahler organized for the Met in the fall of 1969. Naturally, this drove its price up. "You might call it the principle of indeterminancy," Geldzahler observed. "You change the behavior of an object by looking at it." Or by putting it in a big show...
...Just like a fish hook," he said and took a hammer from his overalls. He drove one of the notorious nails into an upright beam in the barn, up to a quarter-inch from its head...
...second half, Harvard drove to a 40-40 tie only to then lapse into the same turnover problems that stifled the Crimson attack in the first half...