Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street from his home in a middleclass, modern, black housing neighborhood. It was total-integration day, and seven protesting white parents stood at the base of the flagpole urging a boycott. "I just had enough," Elliott said. "So I put on my wooden legs, got in my car and drove over there." Facing the demonstrating whites, he said: "I have kids over here. Consider your children. Act like a man. This makes me mad, man." The encounter ended in an inconclusive shouting match...
...TIME Correspondent Robert Anson drove out of Phnom-Penh to cover a battle at Skoun, 45 miles to the northeast. He never made it. At 3:55 in the afternoon, he was captured by anti-government forces. On Aug. 23, Anson drove back into Phnom-Penh with a release order in his pocket, unharmed and in good health. What follows is Anson's own account of his 21 days behind the lines...
...drove confidently, foolishly, toward Skoun, not looking for the other signs that were all around me. Six kilometers from Skoun, my eye caught a South Vietnamese gunship making lazy circles over what had to be the city. I watched carefully now, but saw only the plane. Then I saw them, out the left window, standing in the heavy underbrush by the side of the road...
Later that evening, as the entire party drove to the Moscow television tower restaurant for after-dinner coffee, Kosygin suddenly ordered the driver to stop the auto and took Brandt for a 20-minute walk along Kalinin Prospect, Moscow's most modern shopping street, whose glass-sheathed buildings could easily stand in Dusseldorf or Rotterdam...
...generates his power." Not long ago the callipygous Cuban was leading both major leagues in home runs, runs batted in and batting average. Now it looks as if he might not lead his own team in anything. Not that Tony Perez is slumping-he hammered out four homers and drove in 14 runs in his last six games. It is simply that he plays for a fearsome aggregation known this year as the "Big Red Machine...