Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring Drives. In Salina, Kans., WAC Lieut. Linda Barnes drove her car to a garage, found the trouble was simply a bird's nest and three eggs on the motor block. In Los Angeles, Jessie Sachs's motor continued to hum after the ignition was turned off; under the hood was a busy swarm of bees...
...deviously) toward Japan. Last week, at the bottom of the Allied line of attack, Australians jabbed a small but significant arrow away from Japan and straight toward the Japs' stolen empire. Landing on the swampy, oil-rich island of Tarakan off Borneo's northeast coast, Aussie troops drove the Japanese off an airstrip. Soon Allied planes would be using it to work over the South China Sea, Borneo and The Netherlands East Indies...
...civilians had left Davao was not clear. Perhaps they sincerely dreaded American vengeance, perhaps their own troops drove them away. But the troops, it was clear, had left a few units behind for house-to-house fighting, then retreated to the hills to rat-fight from caves and ridges, in conformance with standard Japanese tactics...
Pigeons, Alas. In Milwaukee, ill-mannered pigeons plagued the courthouse until starlings arrived and drove them away; when the hard-pressed courthouse custodian drove away the ill-mannered starlings, the pigeons promptly came back...
When I and other correspondents reached the scene, a howling mob was struggling for place beside the heap of cadavers. Partisan guards vainly fired rifle and pistol shots into the air to keep the crowd back. We drove our jeep to the edge of the scene, I clambered atop the hood...