Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organizer, attained political power and preached nationalism while flaunting cutaways and a yellow Rolls-Royce. When Britain's colonial hold eased in 1967, Bradshaw was voted into the first of three terms as Prime Minister and, sensing opposition to his posh lifestyle, decelerated to khakis and a Land Rover...
...chained in his cell for most of the 26 days he spent in detention-as well as during two full nights of interrogation. During the last 24 hours of his life, he had been driven, still unclothed but covered by a blanket, in the back of a police Land-Rover all the way to Pretoria, where he died of the head injuries 14 hours later...
...trouble, but a new boss and a turn toward moderation by its fractious workers are strengthening its chances to stay in business. When the Labor government reluctantly agreed to take over nearly bankrupt British Leyland Motor Corp. in 1975, it publicly warned the maker of Jaguar, Morris, Triumph and Rover cars that it would not throw good money after bad. The price of government cash for new-car development and badly overdue plant modernization was to be an end to the constant bickering that has pitted unions against management and against each other. For two years, the warning was mostly...
There were no casual "walkabouts," as she calls them, and no rides in horse-drawn open coaches past cheering crowds. Indeed, the only touring she and her husband Prince Philip dared was a short ride aboard an army Land-Rover specially fitted with a cocoon of bulletproof glass. Nonetheless, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had reason to be pleased with her two-day Silver Jubilee visit to Northern Ireland. Racked by warfare between Protestants and Catholics for the past eight years, Ulster was girded for yet another round of violence, punctuated by what the militant Provisional wing...
Once inside Eritrea, we traveled cross-country, mostly by Land Rover, often at night. It was necessary for two people to drive-one at the wheel, the other calling out the terrain ahead or shouting out the depths of a river in the manner of Mark Twain...