Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bingham missed a second roundtripper in the three-run eighth when he drove one to the base of the fence in center for a triple. This one scored Pearce, who had singled, and Stenhouse, who hit one that Shemp tried to tango with, only to miss connections with his intended partner...
...invaders or disappeared into the bush. But at week's end Big Daddy seemed to have won at least a temporary reprieve. A force of 2,000 Libyan troops, sent at the last minute by Amin's ally, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, mounted a counterattack that drove the invaders out of the Kampala suburbs to Budo, 16 miles southwest of the capital...
...marvels at the copious flow of his invective ... Henry James [was] that "miserable little snob" whose preference for English society and English literature drove Roosevelt to near frenzy: 'Thus it is for the undersized man of letters, who flees his country because he, with his delicate, effeminate sensitiveness, finds the conditions of life on this side of the water crude and raw ... and so goes where he will be sheltered from the winds that harden stouter souls...
...until a battered Jamie Egasti took a flip from junior whiz Pete Predun, drove to his right, and bounced a shot over the shoulder of surprisingly stingy Quaker goalkeeper Chuck Leitner with 7:07 left in the game that the Crimson looked serious about winning...
Montgomery, his mate in the bottom third of the batting order, drove Brohamer home moments later with a base hit up the middle on a 3-and-2 pitch...