Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late afternoon, the final four flyers moved out of the ready room and suited up. Colonel Macho drove out on the flight line to watch them take off. Ground personnel had painted the last bombs red, white and blue, inscribing them with labels: 500 POUNDS OF JELLY BEANS, CARE PACKAGE, LAST CHANCE CHARLIE. Read one carefully lettered piece of ordnance: THIS BOMB IS DEDICATED TO THE HOPE THAT ALL MARINES HERE AT BIEN HOA WILL SOON BE ENJOYING A GOOD AND EVERLASTING PIECE. It was not an inadvertent misspelling...
...white America sit up and be aware of what is happening to us." Though prejudice is hardly an excuse for wholesale slaughter, Mrs. Essex made her point. So did a white youth outside the church. As a radio reporter walked from his car to the press conference, the boy drove by shouting, "Have fun with the niggers. We hate...
...hard sell worked. Within four years, Davidson, with only 1,000 students, became a big, nationally ranked powerhouse. In 1969, after the Wildcats finished No. 3 in the U.S., grateful Davidson alumni presented Driesell with a new Thunderbird. A few weeks later he drove off to College Park, Md., and a new $25,000-a-year coaching...
...change and there's nothing you can do about it. I such on my balloon thinking this is one of the things that really doesn't matter, but this the way some things are lost, lost in the moment, you or someone else says what the hell. Later we drove into town and bought groceries and more balloons...
...been described, too often, as a mechanical "yockmeister" whose characters are only scan deep. Moreover, the savor seems to have gone out of his triumphs. Another Simon smash is no longer news; it would take a failure to astonish anyone, and Simon seems incapable of one. All of which drove Simon into a deep depression last year, a gloom from which he is only beginning to emerge. He is, in brief, a character in a Neil Simon play. In preparing an Essay on Simon and American humor, Kanfer found that the notes from his interview with the playwright mystically rearranged...