Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taxed but far from exhausted by two weeks of day-night vigil, the President journeyed to Hyde Park for a weekend rest. With his mother he drove through the rain to St. James Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, where he heard the Rev. Frank R. Wilson denounce Adolf Hitler, read from the Old Testament (Habakkuk, 2:8): ". . . Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee...
Last week Joe Kennedy had already shuttered and barred the palatial Embassy house at No. 14 Prince's Gate (donated to the U. S. in 1921 by J. P. Morgan) and moved to a country house away from the terror of bombs. Thence each morning he drove into London in a Chrysler, waved swiftly through traffic by bobbies who spotted the large "CD" disk (Corps Diplomatique) on the radiator-grille. Every day he had to see at least one member of Britain's War Cabinet. Meanwhile, there was the job of sending the nine Kennedy children* back...
...following in trucks, seized Kielce, Radom, Lódź (the textile centre). The entry of one motorized unit, traveling far ahead of its support, into the heart of Warsaw, led to premature announcement of the capital's invasion on Friday. Snipers at windows, machine gunners on roofs, drove the invaders back to Warsaw's southwestern suburbs, but there the main German forces soon arrived, too, and Warsaw was hemmed in on at least two sides. To its defense from the west came Polish divisions retreating in good order out of the big pocket formed around Poznan, where...
...confidence, all the complacency had vanished last week from the four emissaries. They drove aimlessly about the Italian countryside "on a sightseeing trip," wondering what to do with a 6 ft. by 24 ft. tapestry called Ocean Is Turbulent, which it had taken 4,060 Japanese craftsmen three years to make out of 2,450 bunches of gold thread and 85 shades of pure silk thread, and which the emissaries had expected to give Herr Hitler for his living room wall...
Patients' Progress. All last week, ambulances and lumbering green busses carried convalescents and minor cases out of large London hospitals, drove them home, or off to private houses in the countryside. At least 300,000 hospital beds stand empty, all over Britain, ready to receive victims of the first air raid...