Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other developments, South Vietnamese forces drove 25 miles inside southern Laos yesterday and seized Sepone, reported to be a major communist supply center, South Vietnamese engineers are rebuilding the town's abandoned airstrip, which will allow them to fly reinforcements and supplies into southern Laos...
...route to Miami, I was already bothered by the noisy insufficiencies of my own world. At the airport my sleepy irritation was jarred by a platinum wig, perched on a mannequin head, that watched dumbly while its brunette alter-ego harangued a porter. I drove through Miami Beach to indulge myself in a deluge of costumes and Cadillacs. Later, in Palm Beach, Harold's grocery truck (of Southampton, L.I., and Palm Beach) sped by advertising pheasant and fresh caviar. At Hamburger Haven I was handed hamburgers by a waiter in a cashmere sweater and Gucci shoes (no socks). In front...
...Doctrine. The rescue operation involved 8,000 Cambodian infantry and 5,300 South Vietnamese troops, backed by artillery and no fewer than 200 tanks. One force, predominantly Cambodian, drove south from Phnom-Penh along Route 4, the key, 125-mile link with Kompong Som, Cambodia's one deepwater port and site of its only oil refinery. Another force, combining Cambodian infantry and South Vietnamese armor, pushed north from Kompong Som. The pincers closed on the rugged, heavily jungled Elephant Mountains, where 1,000 North Vietnamese regulars from the crack 101st Regiment had been blocking a 25-mile stretch...
...They smashed and burned many houses," they were acting it out impassionedly, most were too young to have remembered it, some were not even alive. "But the people wouldn't leave, they grabbed rocks and boards from the wrecked houses and fought the soldiers all day. And they finally drove them...
...street vendor in the Old City of Montevideo reached into the pile of lettuce on his pushcart and pulled out a machine gun, four cars blocked the route of a black Daimler sedan. Out jumped a dozen men, who seized and clubbed two bodyguards and a chauffeur, and drove off triumphantly in the Daimler with their latest captive-and their biggest prey to date: British Ambassador to Uruguay Geoffrey Jackson...