Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile the agents opened fire, Cowley with a machine gun, Hollis with an automatic shotgun. Each one had emptied his gun before he fell, riddled with bullets. The outlaws ceased firing. One of them, shot in the legs, was limping badly. Their woman ran to the Federal car, drove it back to pick them up. As the automobile disappeared westward a State policeman who had been hiding in the grass, uncertain which side to take, popped a rifle ineffectually...
...swearing in of a President of Mexico no Bible is possible. Last week, as though going to a bull fight, those affable, spur-clinking atheists, President Abelardo Rodriguez and President-elect Lazaro Cardenas (TIME, Dec. 3), drove through a frantically cheering rabble to the National Stadium, packed with 50,000 inauguration addicts...
...Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell whom the President, driving his own car, met at the railroad station, took home for luncheon, took for a swim, conferred with at length. A jolly time they had together, and on the second day of the Tugwell visit the President drove him and Mrs. Roosevelt to see an erosion control project on his 1,700-acre farm at nearby Pine Mountain...
...around the reservoir," Editor Leach bounced along the West Drive toward a Park exit, thinking of the anti-Crime indignation he hoped to arouse. Suddenly two men jumped from the shrubbery into his path. One pinioned Editor Leach's arms, forced him to his knees. The other mercilessly drove his fists again &again into Editor Leach's face, closed both his eyes. The ruffians took Editor Leach's wallet, containing $40, and his gold watch, chain & penknife which his wife had given him before they were married. By the time the editor recovered sight & senses his attackers...
...Dola, Ohio, Joe Ludwig stalled his automobile on a railroad track, jumped out just before the Broadway Limited, Chicago-bound from Manhattan, crashed into it. While train crew and passengers waited for another locomotive to be sent from Chicago, Joe Ludwig climbed into his automobile, started the engine, drove away...