Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlantic ports of Lobito and Benguela, which with the capture of the east central Angolan town of Luso late in the week gave the M.P.L.A. full control of the strategic Benguela Railway, which spans Angola from the Atlantic to the Zaïre border. The M.P.L.A. then drove eastward to take Silva Porto (now renamed Bie), site of UNlTA's military headquarters. Mean while, M.P.L.A. units in the north easily defeated a motley force of mercenaries (see following story) and F.N.L.A. troops at the Congo River port of Santo Antonio do Zaïre. They were also closing...
Barbra Streisand drove costume fitters to the brink during the filming of Funny Girl by continually changing the padding in her bras. Playing Julius Caesar in Cleopatra, Rex Harrison allowed his own skinny frame to be beefed up with foam rubber, so much that the daggers kept bouncing off him during the death scene. So reports Oscar-Winning Designer Irene Sharaff, 64, describing the care and costuming of actors in a new memoir titled Broadway and Hollywood, Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff. Stars are like "anyone else in underwear," she insists. In The Bishop's Wife (1948), for instance...
Bolting off the starting line like a jack rabbit in each of her races-1,500 (silver), 500 (gold) and 1,000 (bronze) meters-she drove through the all-important turns in near perfect form. "It feels weird to win a gold medal," declared Sheila, who had a bad cold and a hacking cough. "I felt this rush through my whole body when I knew...
Cornell finished the blitzkreig minutes later. A Lang drive hit the post, and John Harper drove the rebound home...
There were three minutes left on the clock and the Crimson was trailing by eight but closing in rapidly. Ray McGuire stole the ball and drove for an easy layup--but there was a mid-air collision. No foul was called and St. Thomas More scored quickly...