Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around 7 a.m. two Cambridge policemen in a patrol can drove into the Yard and, after steering down a footwalk between University and Mass Halls, calmly parked facing the pickets. Steiner immediately approached the patrolmen and asked them to leave; he also tries, without success, to find out who had dispatched them to the Yard...
When the applause wasn't ringing in my ears and I wasn't thinking about sex. I had to occupy my mind other ways. Usually I just sang teenage death songs. Laura's boyfriend Tommy drove to the stock car race and killed himself about 22 times during the course of the Marathon, and if that train didn't kill Teen Angel the first time, I imagine it had by the nineteenth...
...year career as the black world's premier preacher, politician and playboy, Powell was a flamboyant symbol of success and the good life that most of his 430,000 largely black constituents could only dream about. He openly flouted the rules set down by whites, drove expensive foreign cars, dined at exclusive restaurants and made regular trips abroad-usually taking along some comely woman companion. Women were a ubiquitous element in the Powell lifestyle, and even as he lay in a coma in a Miami hospital before his death from cancer last week at age 63 his third wife...
...then, some 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars were driving straight through the DMZ into Quang Tri province to join another 20,000 troops already in the area. By Monday, said one awed CINCPAC officer, "it looked like the Rhine River campaign" of World War II. One column drove south along the beaches of the Tonkin Gulf, despite a heavy barrage laid down by U.S. destroyers offshore. Taking advantage of heavy rains and low clouds, which limited air strikes, other units rolled down French-built Highway 1 aboard Soviet-built tanks and trucks towing antiaircraft or artillery pieces...
Enemy tanks captured the northern section of the town Thursday, but An Loc's defenders reported they drove the Vietcong from all but two blocks of the provincial capital last night. President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered the remaining 12,000 man government force to hold the town at all costs...