Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were a few initial victories, but the mounted, mobile Boers with their magazine-loading Mausers and their devastating "Long Tom" artillery soon drove the British forces into siege positions at Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking. The lessons of preparedness were not lost on one of the Boers' early captives: young War Correspondent Winston Churchill...
...fourth quarter started with the Crimson ahead, 3-0, and it looked like the game would end with that score. The teams traded kicks until the four minute warning when the Bulldogs suddenly drove deep into Harvard territory...
Peter Hilton, the fly half, started off the second period by scoring a try on a 40-yd. run. Hilton faked a "scissors" play (a reverse in football lingo) to gain the necessary opening. Charlie Bott drove the convert home...
...mechanism that keeps him or her functioning. Then the full horror of the crash pokes through, fades again, and gradually comes to overwhelm the victim. Like many flight attendants, Arlene Feroe, who survived an Alaska Airlines accident, ran around the hospital for days apologizing to injured passengers. Another attendant drove his automobile into a tree during a hallucination; he "saw" a colleague who died in a plane crash sitting beside...
Four New York bond trading houses have failed. One of the victims is Frederick Gorsetman, 34, who, riding along with rising bond business in August 1978, opened his own firm. But when the Federal Reserve drove up short-term interest rates, his firm had to absorb devastating losses on bonds that no one would buy. After three weeks of harried days on Wall Street and sleepless nights in his Riverside Drive apartment, Gorsetman closed his ofiice's front door. Although he is now looking for another job on Wall Street, he says bitterly, "The market stinks...