Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadows of Harry Hopkins' first evening in Italy were falling on sad, eternal Rome when he drove to the somber Palazzo Chigi. There, in a dun-walled room once used by Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano, President Roosevelt's sour-faced emissary had a chat with Italy's pale Foreign Minister, gap-toothed Alcide De Gaspari...
...Monday the 24th and 38th Divisions drove ashore between San Antonio and San Felipe. They sliced swiftly to the southeast, grabbed the old U.S. naval station at Olongapo, drove down the road to the east to block off Bataan...
Perhaps Marshal Stalin had decided that the most stubborn fact of all was his allies' inability to decide what to do in Europe. Perhaps he thought that if he simply waited while his armies drove on, all Europe, including Germany, might eventually drop into his lap because there was nowhere else for it to drop. But his allies, too, were driven by a historic force, for they knew that if they failed to persuade Joseph Stalin to a united peace, even their united military victory would be a defeat...
...north, they joined with other Nazi units attacking Hatten-a village whose shell-torn, fire-blackened ruins had been fought over for more than a week-and thus established a front from Gambsheim clear across to the Lorraine salient south of Bitche. The blow to the west drove the U.S. Seventh Army back five miles. Then the Germans shoved south to a point nine miles from Strasbourg...
When the mayor of Carvell City drove up, Cancy Dodd was sprawled on his broken-down porch staring glumly at his scrubby farmland and thinking about his hidden still and the two men he had once killed "in self-defense." Cancy was Carvell City's toughest Negro-hater. But his eyes popped when His Honor boomed: "We're looking for a new marshal. . . . Somebody who'll keep the niggers in their place." "When do you want me?" said Cancy...