Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tufts tried to make its move in the next frame, but was thwarted by a Crimson defense which bent but made the big plays when it had to. The Jumbos drove to a first and goal at the Harvard eight before the defense rose up and stopped them cold. Tufts had to settle for a field goal...
...plays later, Jellison bolted into the end zone to give Harvard a 6-0 lead. The extra point attempt was blocked. Moments later, the Yardlings drove for another score, quarterback Burke St. John cutting back and dodging his way for the last 20 yards. His pass for two points failed...
...concentration of state power and the extension of bureaucracy into private life have already begun to curtail individual rights and liberties (TIME, July 19). Frequently cited as an example of the increasing arbitrariness of the bureaucracy was the harassment of Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman by Swedish tax authorities, which drove him abroad into self-imposed exile earlier this year...
Noiseless Shift. TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold last week drove a Ford van equipped with a DDE engine. His report: "If you didn't know the cutout engine was in the car, you probably would not even feel the difference. When you know, you are conscious of the car's being in the six-cylinder or three-cylinder mode only at certain points; you feel a small, noiseless shift...
...deepest realization of what the Old South was really like came in about 1962, when my father, brother, a friend and I drove South to my grandmother's house in Stuart, Fla. On the way we were denied a room in a Holiday Inn in Savannah, and wound up sleeping in a "rooming house" (read whorehouse) that hadn't had an overnight guest in years. In Stuart, my father went into a hardware store to buy a Thermos bottle. The white clerk asked my dad, a distinguished professor of surgery at least 20 years his senior, "What...