Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to hearing four-four tempos from marches and other dance tunes, to remember that tempo; then from the very beginning of the record, the band proceeded to play ahead of this implied beat. Push, push, push, till the record sounds like a pile driver with St. Vitus dance. Drive is the whole object of this style of playing...
...Brown drive came in the third period, in which the Bears scored 17 points while holding the Crimson to nine. A stirring last quarter was the scene of a final bid for victory. Joe Romano led the rally, which reached a high tide...
HELSINKI--Finnish forces were reported unofficially tonight to have invaded Russian territory in a strong drive north of Lake Ladoga which the Government's military communique described as a "great success" costing the Red Army heavy casualties...
...larger organization of this kind is Defense Passive, a corps of women who, if there ever are any air raids, will drive ambulances and help drag the wounded out of smashed buildings. Some Defense Passives have already bought long, brown, gas-proof capes with yellow scarves, but most are still thriftily hesitating to uniform themselves. Just now they are "practicing," driving about at night in completely lightless ambulances to hypothetical bomb spots...
...Havas, Stalin also outlined to the Politburo on Aug. 19 the coming Soviet seizure of part of Poland and expansion in the Baltic, to be later followed if possible by taking Bessarabia from Rumania, establishing a Soviet zone of influence in Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria and finally attempting to drive a Russian corridor to the Adriatic...