Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does God Himself. In the past, Chabrol's films have shown retribution coming to those in whom the id has won out in violence or immorality. At best that retribution has been tragic. But in Ten Days' Wonder, although Charles meets his death it is Theo--who drove Charles's passions to "unnatural" outlets-who is literally guilty: his is Helene's murderer. He is punished for his hubris, for daring to manipulate men as if he were God. But beyond that it is God Himself, the greatest manipulator, who is the target hidden in the long shadow...
...last week the nation's biggest manufacturing company named its first woman director. She is Miss Catherine B. Cleary, 55, president of Milwaukee's First Wisconsin Trust Co., and she differed from most others on G.M.'s 28-member board in more ways than one: she drove a Ford (after her selection, she exchanged it for a Pontiac...
...wasn't football. Maybe "grease-the-pig" or "slitherball," but not football. BU fumbled a dozen times, and Harvard retaliated with five of their own. Seventeen fumbles in four quarters! Even the 30 m.p.h. winds that drove sheets of rain in from the open end of the field couldn't behave...
...purchase of U.S. wheat and other crops. The sale has also raised charges from Democrats that some Nixon Administration officials unfairly tipped the big grain companies to the impending deal, enabling them to buy wheat relatively cheap from unknowing farmers before news of the scope of the Russian deal drove up prices. Yet the Communists bargained shrewdly; it was by covering up the great size of their requirements until the last moment that they apparently bought at bargain prices...
Mickey Lolich struck out 15 batters while Aurelio Rodriguez drove in three runs with a homer and a pair of singles as the Detroit Tigers trimmed the Boston Red Sox 4-1 Monday night in the opener of a three-game series that will determine baseball's American League East champion...