Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth went into action as an identified army late in January. The 38th Division and elements of the 24th piled ashore north of Bataan, went on to take Subic Bay and Olongapo. Two days after the first landing the 11th Airborne piled out of boats at Nasugbu and drove to the southern outskirts of Manila in 104 hours. The 511th Regimental Combat Team made the first paratroop drop of the Philippine campaign, landing along the Tagaytay ridge in support of the11th Airborne's ground drive...
...Pixy Bridge at Ballasalla in the Isle of Man drove Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. At the bridge, their Majesties cried: Evie, manyagh veggar! (Greetings, Little Men!). This was necessary because the pixies in the glen below whistle while they work and hence do not hear the approach of strangers. They have been reported to wreak horrible vengeance on unannounced intruders...
...period of unilateral rule, the Russians had appointed the Bürgermeisters for all Berlin's boroughs and an Oberbürgermeister. They had opened, under their own rules, a few schools, movies, cafes. Their buxom women troops acted as sentries and traffic police. Their stolid Red Armymen drove confiscated cattle and horses along the Kurfurstendamm...
...President went off for a last visit with his 92-year-old mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, at Grandview, Mo., then drove back to Independence. Next morning he was aboard the presidential plane (which he calls "The Sacred Cow"), on his way to Washington and points east...
...pouring down when Small alighted from the bus in the dawn and dragged his bag over to the general store. Old Frank Cunningham, town jack-of-all-trades, was standing there. Said Cunningham: "Well, well, it's Phil Small." In Cunningham's battered coupe, Phil Small drove off cross-country through the rain...