Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speeches ended and the small group wandered slowly down the street chanting slogans, hands clenched against the May chill, and soon dispersed. A few minutes later, the police also drove away...
Carl Yastrzemski drove in four runs with three home runs and Jim Rice pounded a three-run shot to lead the Red Sox to a 9-2 victory over the Tigers last night...
...five years Kroc had bought out their share of the enterprise. And a few months later, annoyed at the price the brothers had forced him to pay, Kroc opened a clone duplicate of the original stand--which they had renamed Mac's Place--across the road from it, and drove them out of business with their own irresistable name...
...outcome is too close to call. Environmentalists have vowed to mount the most intensive lobbying campaign since their defeat of the SST. Timber men, for their part, have set up "Monongahela Action Committees" to press for the Humphrey bill in every congressional district. Last week some 100 independent loggers drove their huge rigs to the Western Forest Center in Portland, Ore., and staged a mock funeral for their industry, thus dramatizing what they think will happen if Congress does not see the issue their...
Married. The Rev. James E. Groppi, 45, activist Roman Catholic priest who marched for civil rights in the 1960s, against the Viet Nam War in the early 1970s, and later drove a Yellow Cab in Milwaukee to finance his studies at Antioch's Law School; and Margaret Rozga, 30, lecturer and doctoral student in English literature at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; in a civil ceremony in Las Vegas on April 22. Father Groppi is now excommunicated and banned from performing priestly functions. If the Vatican should give him permission to become a layman, the decree of excommunication...