Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freezing wind was whipping across Jamaica Bay when the bandits struck at 3:05 a.m. They drove a stolen 1978 black Ford van along North Boundary Road and turned onto a roadway at the north end of the Lufthansa cargo area. The thieves first stopped and clipped a chain securing the gate, and then proceeded about 400 ft. to a ramp. There an airline employee, Kerry Whalen, challenged them. The gang pistol-whipped him, threw him to the floor of the van and drove onto the loading bay area...
Inside the building, three other robbers, who had entered earlier, knew that the Lufthansa night crew was on a coffee break. They rounded up the employees in the lunchroom and handcuffed them. Then they joined the others, opened the door to the warehouse, drove the van inside and went straight to the high-security vault. With them they took the manager. One of the robbers held a gun to the manager's head, and, threatening to kill him, forced him to open the vault. With all employees handcuffed, the six men started throwing the boxes of money and jewelry into...
When the post office in Troy, Mich., summoned Michael Achorn to pick up a 2-ft.-long 40-lb. package, his wife Margaret cheerfully went to accept it, but as she drove it back to her office in Detroit, she began to worry. The box was from Montgomery Ward, but the sender, Edward Achorn, was unknown to Margaret and her husband despite the identical last name. What if the thing was a bomb? She telephoned postal authorities...
...turnabouts occurred because 1978 was the year when the U.S. ran out of excuses for bad economic policy and performance. The collapse of the dollar drove home the truth that the nation is suffering from shockingly lower investment and productivity than its industrial rivals. (American output per hour worked rose a mere .3% in the twelve months ending last September, a record that one high Administration official calls "an utter disaster.") The trade deficit that looked freakishly large at $26.5 billion in 1977 grew even bigger, and this time it could not be wholly blamed on oil imports -which actually...
...fish). Miss Piggy has a wandering eye, however, and if the week's guest star happens to be a good-looking man, she latches onto him. After dancing the stirring pas de deux from Swine Lake with Rudolph Nureyev, she stalked the poor fellow into a steam bath and drove him forth with his towel askew...