Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They then drove to Jamaica Plain, where both men allegedly raped her. Carefully keeping her from seeing the car's license plates. they drove her back to Garden St. The girl was unhurt, her friend said...
...meeting any resistance and then occupied four additional key points: the district police headquarters, the government office building, the VHP radio transmitter and the Zilla school for boys. Most of the sleeping townspeople did not realize what had happened until 5:30 a.m., when Jeeploads of soldiers with bullhorns drove through the empty streets announcing that a total curfew was to begin 30 minutes later...
This is what infuriated me. This is what drove me to say, as quoted in the CRIMSON, that these revolutionaries had "no balls at all." To some of you this may be a small point. You may indeed consider me a baiter, but in fact I am only saying that such big words as used by PLP in its dissertation on free speech normally constitute a courageous commitment. I suggest that the little bourgeois revolutionaries of Harvard who regard such tracts as only verbal exercises should get off their campus and see what the real world is like. Despite...
Other top U.S. drivers suffered different misfortunes. Al Unser, winner of last year's Indianapolis 500, had to drop out when his Lola-Chevrolet developed oil pressure problems. A.J. Foyt drove a McLaren-Chevrolet until the motor quit. Follmer's Lotus-Ford suffered a broken rocker arm. British Driver Derek Bell, for one, regarded the U.S. cars as so much clutter. "It's frustrating," he groused, "for a Formula One driver to wait...
...taxi industry is maintaining a stiff upper meter. According to Arthur Gore, publisher of the trade sheet Taxi News, "It is only a question of time before people come round." But with the imminence of summer, traditionally a slack season anyway, drivers aren't so sure. "I drove all the way from Wall Street to the East Side without a fare today," lamented Max Fuchs. "With a situation like this, I feel like getting loaded...