Word: droves
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...shell cases, abandoned trucks and Jeeps. In the center of town I passed bodies covered with a cloth or a bamboo mat. Funeral pyres lit the sky. Here and there the sidewalks were stained with blood." On the heels of Kong Le's retreat, Premier Prince Boun Oum drove into Vientiane and sent out an appeal for U.S. aid for his ravaged capital...
...Akhbar's once fat profits had dwindled to the vanishing point since Nasser's nationalization. There would be no raise, they said. Enraged at this "reneging," a crowd of infuriated typesetters pursued the brothers to their ninth-floor office, besieged them with shouts of "Swindlers! Stealers!" Police drove them away. Soon after, Nasser barred both the Amins and Shaker from the Akhbar building...
...suitors for the hand of Pelias' daughter Alcestis. Pelias promised his daughter to the man who could yoke a wild boar and a lion to his chariot and drive them around a race course. Admetus ap pealed for help to Apollo, who tamed a wild team that Admetus drove to victory to win Alcestis. See Music, Mommy...
...rookie-of-the-year awards went to a pair of powerful youngsters who forgot about their averages and swung for the fences: in the National League, Los Angeles' Outfielder Frank Howard (6 ft. 7 in., 245 Ibs.), 24, batted .268 but hit 23 home runs and drove in 77 runs; in the American League, Baltimore's Shortstop Ron Hansen (6 ft. 3 in., 190 Ibs.), 22, batted .255 but hit 22 home runs and drove in 86 runs...
...Fasano; Mercury, 2 LPs). "He has received the homage of his age and has assured to himself that of posterity." Thus Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) paid tribute to himself in a contemporary dictionary. Unfortunately for his prediction, a rival named Rossini later wrote his own Barber of Seville and drove the older work from the stage. In this recording, Paisiello's Barber emerges as a smaller-scaled work than Rossini's but with a gay, quicksilvery score, some limpidly graceful airs, and several scenes of truly inspired buffoonery. Soprano Sciutti, fresh-voiced and fanciful, makes Rosina seem...