Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next move was obvious, at least to the crowd. Thal ignored chants to foul an MIT player and instead stole the ball and drove the length of the court for a layup. MIT led, 39-38, with just 32 seconds left...
...NIGHT NIXON resigned, a couple of hundred people converged on Harvard Square and shouted a little and climbed on top of the subway kiosk. When the National Liberation Front finally drove the last vestiges of an American-supported and -armed government out of Vietnam, perhaps twenty people held an impromptu March past the Houses while students inside their rooms yelled at them to be quiet. When Harvard finally wrote an affirmative action plan and included some tenants in drawing its plans for expansion, nobody noticed. It makes a lot of sense, really, that students didn't regard all these things...
Internal Subversion. Meanwhile, President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, which has been plagued by thousands of refugees, declared a state of emergency. Kaunda, who is sympathetic to the F.N.L.A.-UNITA coalition, blamed threats of internal subversion. "They drove colonialism and fascism out the front door," said Kaunda referring to Angola, "only to let a plundering tiger and its cubs in the back door." There was no doubt he meant Russia and Cuba...
...have dinner with, and those with whom she would have preferred not to. Now that Christopher Skes has written what will remain for the foreseeable future the definitive biography of Evelyn Waugh, it is clear that Waugh falls into the disinvited category. The man was a social sadist; he drove a war cripple into psychoanalysis in the course of a single weekend by verbal brutalization. Waugh knew it himself. "Without supernatural aid," he said, "I would hardly be a human being...
...increases in oil prices. Aviation fuel, which even at lie per gal. in 1973 represented 20% of an airplane's operating costs, soared to 33? in the U.S. (72? abroad). The climb at least doubled the fuel portion of each jumbo jet's operating costs. Inflation drove up landing fees, insurance rates, wages. To stay solvent, the airlines had to hike fares...