Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shake-up was another stroke of luck. It separated Puzo from his civil service security blanket and drove him to the offices of Magazine Management. The company owned such macho publications as Male, Men and Man's World. Puzo wrote battle stories. "I became an ace pulp writer," he recalls. "I wiped out whole armies. I wrote a story about an invasion in which I killed 100,000 men and then later read the statistics. There were only 7,000 killed. But in the process, I became an expert on World War II. I knew more than anybody because...
That same day, a yellow Cadillac skidded to a stop alongside an empty lot in The Bronx. Two men jumped out, dragging a six-foot-long wooden crate. After dousing it with gasoline they ignited it, jumped back into the car and drove off. A witness who had noted the Cadillac's license number immediately called the police. The crate contained the charred corpse of John Tupper, beaten, shot several times and repeatedly stabbed. When police spotted the Cadillac, they found Jacobson at the wheel. The next day, they charged him with murder...
...particular irritation to police, since they will pitch a tent illegally in a parking lot, on a piece of highly desirable beach or even, as one did, on a shady traffic island in the middle of Cannes. Typical is Axel Koenigs, a young West German bank employee who drove to the Côte d'Azur with two friends. After trying 40 campgrounds without luck (and meantime sleeping in his Volkswagen), he invaded a freshly cut hayfield. Says he: "Since there is no possibility to find solitude, we intend to make the best...
...daughter. He'd taught her to play. O.K., so he only hit on weekends, and she played every day. If he just stretched a little more on his forehand shots, he could put the kid away. He knew it. He stretched ... She got the car and drove him to the hospital...
With the Pope garbed in a red chasuble, slippers and gloves and a gold-and-white miter on his head, some 60,000 mourners filed past his body. Then, with more than 5,000 soldiers and police standing guard against Italy's unpredictable terrorists, a hearse drove the body along the 15-mile route to St. Peter's. For a time the body was sealed in its casket. But when Cardinals arriving in Rome voiced disappointment, it was again put on view?in front of the high altar, where only the Pope or his delegate may say Mass. (The body...