Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finally we drove into a garage. . . . They said we had arrived. They took me into the house. . . . My ears were stuffed with cotton and I still was blindfolded but I was not handcuffed. ... I slept on the bed, chained to it. I was released every morning. During the day I lay on the floor guarded and blindfolded...
...have the most trouble with out-of-state cars," explained Captain Donahue. "Until this year, the statute was such that visiting cars could remain '30 consecutive days' in Massachusetts without getting a permit. Students dodged the law by explaining that on the 29th day they drove to New Haven or Providence or some such place, and then their allotted days would begin all over again. But this year the law has been amended to read that no car can remain in the state more than '30 days in a year." At the end of that time permits must be gotten...
...well, he saw in the water beneath his own reflection "the ragged black face of a man, newly murdered." But he was thirsty and drank "gratefully." Just returned to England at the outbreak of the Boer War, Talbot went back again as war correspondent. A slow-healing love affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed by a drunken Cossack servant, rested a while at Verkhoyansk, coldest spot on earth. A fellow-traveller, Scientist Hertz, sent him some frozen flesh...
...show was good enough to get the nominal support of some of the other political groups. But the important ones turned their backs. Some of the ABC men admitted their support of the de Cespedes government had been a mistake and threw in with the Junta. Other ABC men drove through Havana in automobiles bristling with machine-guns. One thousand joined the commissioned officers in the National Hotel. The strongest one-man organization in Cuba, the followers of bearded ex-President Mario G. Menocal, joined with the officers in demanding that the Junta appoint a President and Cabinet, someone...
...policy of friendship emboldened France. Appointed temporary Ambassador to the U. S. in 1919. he spent four months in Washington without presenting his credentials to President Wilson, who was too ill to receive him. After England's general strike of 1926 Viscount Grey helped force the split which drove his onetime associate David Lloyd George out of the Liberal Party. Eye trouble which left him almost totally blind forced him to retire from politics, devote himself to fishing and duck raising on his 2,000 Northumberland acres. He is bitterly attacked in Lloyd George's memoirs, published...