Word: drives
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...congressman in return for a vote than he has to give him a piano out of the public treasury. Such a policy is dangerous as well as odious. If he confines his influence on legislation to its proper sphere he can lead the people but he can never drive them. Corrupt conditions of spoils may seem for a time to cause prosperity, but the prosperity is always artificial as in the case of England when Walpole was premier...
...training the Yale crew this year Bob Cook will adopt a longer body swing and reach, and will use the narrower English oar, but will not adopt the English seats or rigging. The training will aim wat atermanship and a clean, hard catch and drive...
...shot in the lip, and years after tries to tell the story of the "battle ob de Wappahanook," is a piece of blithering nonsense calculated to make a sane man doubt his own sanity, even as he wipes away the tears of laughter. So secure seats at once and drive dull care away and spend an evening with Gilmore and Leonard and the little Yellow Kid in "Hogan's Alley...
...Tilton. Stroke is jerky and uneven. Swings with shoulders, slides a little and then uses shoulders again. Leg drive and body swing are both...
...sympathy with the common people. With the assistance of a group of wealthy planters he attempted to get rid of popular elections. Having in 1660 got an assembly to his liking, he did not dissolve it for sixteen years. The effect of this abuse was to drive many Cavaliers to oppose Berkeley, who in turn became more arrogant than ever...