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Word: droves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WHEN WE drove onto the grounds of the Thanh Hoa Hospital compound, there were dozens of people at work building new structures amidst the rubble left from the recent U.S. air strike. At the same time, they were also constructing bomb shelters...

Author: By Banning Garrett, | Title: Viet Nam: U.S. Bombs Hit Hospital in the North | 2/23/1972 | See Source »

Eddie Kasko's half-brother Charlie Glotzbach of Georgetown, Ind. drove a super-charged Dodge to a second place finish and $14,200 in the Daytona 500. Glotzbach was just edged out in Saturday's race by cagey veteran A.J. Foyt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAYTONA 500 | 2/22/1972 | See Source »

...headed up the Western Union office in Los Angeles. But he wouldn't run a private line out for me -wouldn't break regulations. So I rented an office on Figueroa, near Seventh, where there was a line, and had a ticker-tape installed there ... I drove down there in the middle of the night and laid this whole thing from Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles along the trolley power line to my room at the Ambassador Hotel . . . But I got the terminals reversed, and this immediately showed up on the Western Union Board-a red light flashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Comparing the Two Manuscripts | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

Confession. In the post-mortems on Attica, one strange episode has been the appearance of Kenneth Moore, 28, a tall, bearded black recently sentenced to five to 15 years for killing a policeman. At Christmastime, Moore confessed that he drove the Mustang in the 1965 robbery. He says he stole the car and gave a ride to an acquaintance named Ronnie, who told him: "Man, you picked me up just in time. I just pulled off a sting!" Moore adds that he took Ronnie to New Jersey and never saw him again. He claims he is confessing because "Blyden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Prisoner of Our Time | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...final tribute to one of Cambridge's most distinguished merchants, yesterday's funeral procession drove down Mt. Auburn St., and stopped briefly in front of the store to which Cahaly had devoted so much of his life's energy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funeral Services Held For Owner of Cahaly's | 2/18/1972 | See Source »

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