Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Clay. Born in Seattle, Ward went to work at four, left home at 17 to become a sailor, later drove a dogsled and mined gold in Alaska, fought with Pancho Villa in Mexico. In 1920, he found himself in Leavenworth Prison for violating the narcotics law. There his cellmate was Herbert Huse Bigelow (in for income-tax evasion), president of B & B. Bigelow liked Ward, told him: "I'm going to remold you; you're made of good clay." When Bigelow was released eight months later, he asked Ward what job he would like with the company...
...schedule ground on. Sunday afternoon King dropped by and drove his guest to the Gatineau Hills for a windy walk. Monday morning Clem Attlee sat by a coal fire at Earnscliffe and was interviewed by reporters. He talked only in generalities, about foreign trade chiefly. Then, as visiting dignitaries always do, he stepped out to Ottawa's Confederation Square, laid a wreath at the foot of the city's World War I memorial...
...first appeared in the National Socialist newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, in the fall of 1938, shortly after the Sudeten "Anschluss." The Nazi explanation was that here were portrayed the intense emotions of joy which swept the Sudeten Germans as Hitler crossed the Czech border at Asch and drove through the streets of the nearby ancient city of Eger, 99% of whose inhabitants were ardently pro-Nazi Sudeten Germans at the time...
...professor of American History at Harvard University, in a brilliant justification of the New Deal disguised as a history of the age of Jackson, says that the legend and the facts do not jibe at all. In 577 pages, he implies that the "Jacksonian Revolution," which finally drove the Federalists out, and brought entirely new social forces into political power in the U.S., was just the Roosevelt revolution in embryo. The social forces that broke the Federalists and the power of the "mercantile classes" and made Old Hickory President were the same kind of forces that made the New Deal...
Then Perón hit back. Police and firemen came up with reinforcements. Slowly they drove the students from classroom to class room with high-pressure fire hoses and tear gas. In the central hall the students surrendered. At least 50 had been injured. In a Buenos Aires demonstration that night, student Aaron José Salmon Feijot had been killed...