Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Flaxie & Dan tried and failed again, their owner threw down his hat and gave up hope. Then lanky Russell Sando drove out the Statler Farm's former champions. Rock & Tom. Scorning to pick his ground, but hitching where Contractor Adrian's horses had left the load, he quieted his prancing giants, then eased their reins and let them lean into their collars. When he clucked them "G-up!" they heaved, set leather straining and tug chains tight. Whipping and rein-slapping are not allowed but were not needed to keep Rock & Tom's huge hoofs pounding...
...bloodshot arid yellow-grey, were nevertheless serene. He spoke to her gently. Awaiting her opportunity, she gave him details of an uprising in Caen. When he pushed aside his proof to note the information, she approached him, drew the knife from her pocket and "with one passionate movement she drove it home, straight downwards through the naked breast, up to the hilt, then drew it out and cast it down on the plank. . . . With a raucous cry Marat fell backwards . . . stiffened in agony, his eyes staring, his tongue protruding and blood gushing from the gash" to stain the water...
...honest, emotional, impulsive, self-centered girl, "not much to look at," Mabel Ganson enjoyed life in Buffalo, drove her unloved and unloving father to bed when she bobbed her hair long before bobbing was the style. She had a wild but innocent relationship with Seward Cary, husband of one of her friends who taught her to ride, took her on a coaching party through the Berkshires. One night, at a country inn while other members of the party were asleep, Cary "chased me all over the outside of the building; over roofs and down fire escapes, along mad, narrow ledges...
...outbreak of War. He won the Legion of Honor, soon became a major. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave him a hospital at Compiègne. There with Research Chemist Henry Drysdale Dakin he perfected the famed Carrel-Dakin antiseptic solution for the treatment of infected wounds. Mrs. Carrel drove an ambulance close behind the front...
Sophie introduced tough, husky members of her old smuggling family into the Prince's household, obtained titles or good marriages for them, drove out the Prince's faithful old servants. She used her great strength to throw things around in her fits of rage, keeping the household in terror. She planted several of her lovers, all great, beefy, stalwart fellows, around the Prince, so that all his movements were reported to her. The aging de Condé, feeble, crippled, harried night & day, was nagged, abused, tormented, once appeared with a badly bruised eye, once screamed that Sophie...