Word: droving
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...Friday, some 15,000 came just to watch their teams practice for an hour in preparation for the next day's games. Indiana fans Jeromy Arnett, 28, and his brother Shawn, 22, drove from South Carolina to watch practice, after which they were happy to drive back home. "Especially after we saw they wanted $800 for the top section," said Jeromy...
...someone you wouldn't have lunch with," went one pitch, "so bring condoms." To underscore the message, the university recently stationed the blown-out wreckage of a red Honda Prelude at the center of campus. It was once driven by Alisa Harden, killed at 16 when she drank and drove into a mail truck...
...have been to keep things quiet and thus discourage more victims from coming forward. Now that the silence has been broken, dioceses across the country face mountains of debt, even bankruptcy. The Vatican stands aloof at pay-up time; every diocese is responsible for its own financing. That drove the Santa Fe, N.M., diocese to the brink of insolvency, when it had to borrow from parish savings accounts to fill out a $50 million settlement. The diocese of Santa Rosa, Calif., sold off property, closed an elementary school and took out $7 million in loans from 90 other U.S. dioceses...
...late 1998, a moving company interrupted the production line and began unbolting machinery from the floor. The workers drove out the intruders, guarded the premises around the clock and began looking around for help. Some went to the Worker's Cultural Palace Park, a recreation center built for the proletariat during the heyday of communism. Today it's a gathering place for angry, unemployed laborers. A dozen workers volunteered to help occupy Wang's factory...
...These sessions, which often lasted from 10 PM to 4 AM, went on sometimes two, three times a month - basically, says Doe, whenever O'Connell had the urge, until Doe graduated from St. Thomas in 1986 (in the summer of 1984, while O'Connell drove Doe home for vacation, Does says he and the priest even stayed overnight in a hotel room, where they slept together naked). In the late 1980s, as Doe was pursuing ordination - and even after O'Connell was named bishop of the newly formed diocese of Knoxville, Tenn. in 1988 - O'Connell kept pursuing...