Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drove up, you saw the line of people, four abreast, circling clear around the gates outside the White House, waiting for the grand tour. From where you now stand, those people are still visible, several blocks away from where demonstrators are gathering on the Ellipse behind the White House. The tourists are watching, you figure, a little excited to have visited town on a day when something happened...
After a lull of eight-and-a-half minutes, Mleczko drove home her third and fourth goals of the day within a minute of each other. Sailer picked up her second of the game at 17:30, Cunningham notched number two at 19:20, and Mleczko put the finishing touches on her five goal assault two minutes later...
...days of announcing the indictments, the accusers have now become the accused. The events of last week also brought charges by J. Wallace LaPrade, head of the besieged New York field office, that the FBI was still conducting the same type of illegal break-in practices under Bell which drove a grand jury to indict Gray and his two aides. LaPrade himself is open to charges of ax-grinding: though unindicted, he was a major target in the FBI probe, and his refusal to tender a requested resignation brought his prompt removal as head of the New York office...
...apparently healthy when police officers took him away. A few hours later, when the police brought him to jail, he was so badly bruised that duty officers refused to book him. They told the arresting officers to take Torres to Ben Taub General Hospital for treatment. Instead, six policemen drove him one mile to an area known as "the Hole," behind a large warehouse facing the muddy Buffalo Bayou that winds through the city. There, according to subsequent testimony, they pushed Torres off a 20-ft. dock into the bayou. His body was discovered two days later, floating in 15ft...
Halas and Jenkins moved up to second and third on a passed ball, and then a Burke St. John line drive base hit over shortstop drove them in with runs number three and four...