Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson began its effort to win in a runaway early, as Vince McGugan singled, stole second, and Toby Harvey drove him across with the opening run. Larry Barbiaux drew a walk, and Mike Thomas lifted a two-run home run over the left field fence to give Harvard a 3-0 bulge...
...north, Giap's 35,000 troops were stalemated by ARVN defenders around Hué and Quang Tri. North of the latter last week, a clever South Vietnamese marine commander simply evacuated his base after learning of an impending Communist night armor attack; when the North Vietnamese drove into the base, the marines opened fire from the perimeter, knocking out at least five tanks and killing scores of enemy troops. Another Communist armored force roared east on Highway 9 in the darkness, but missed the turn to its objective, Dong Ha. When the sun rose, the parked, puzzled Communists found...
...heir to the throne of England drove to his Sunday polo match in his blue Aston Martin convertible with a smashing blonde bird in black slacks and a cream-colored shirt with the tails hanging out. Between chukkers, they chatted it up and laughed a lot, and then Prince Charles, 23, drove her back to Windsor Castle. Georgiana Russell is the name-the 24-year-old daughter of Sir John Russell, Britain's Ambassador to Spain, and Lady Russell, a former Greek beauty queen. Georgiana, a gifted linguist (French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian), lives in London and works...
...other New York Mafia families, but they had their reasons for staying away-too many police and reporters, and war in the air. The cortege, led part of the way by a police car with a flashing dome light, slowly toured Gallo's old President Street neighborhood, then drove to Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery. Police and federal agents were among the spectators. An unusually large number of gravediggers and an out-of-place olive-drab telephone van were on hand. The mourners filed by, dropping single roses onto the casket and crying: "Take...
...writes Witcover, it was Nelson Rockefeller who helped turn Agnew, the "White Knight" of civil rights, into Agnew the conservative. In 1968 Agnew backed Rockefeller early and aggressively for the Republican presidential nomination. When Rockefeller publicly withdrew without privately notifying Agnew, he humiliated a proud man, Witcover reasons, and drove him into the arms of Richard Nixon. Agnew's only previous contact had been a long unanswered letter. "That damn Nixon!" he exploded to a friend. "He won't even answer your letters." But when the two sometime losers finally met, there was instant rapport...