Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet high, in which were three football fields and a concrete swimming pool. U.S. artillery and planes dealt the defenders a merciless beating. A pillbox under a haystack was unmasked and heavily shelled. But when the infantry moved in across open fields, German mines and machine guns time & again drove them back. A bridge over which the defenders got reinforcements was knocked out by the Ninth's cannon every day. Every night the Germans put it up again...
...ankle-deep mud of the Emilian plain, Canadians of the Eighth Army fought from grapevine to grapevine toward Ravenna (pop. 78,000), Byron's favorite Italian town, once an early Christian metropolis and a naval base in the days of Augustus Caesar. Finally the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards drove in from the northwest while the 27th Lancers pushed in from the south. The Germans backed out so quickly there was no time for house-to-house fighting. Residents turned out for the kind of flag-waving reception the toiling troops in Italy had almost forgotten...
...Bullets were whining up the street, so we dived behind an inadequate steel phone pole and hydrant. We tried three times to join the others, but each time bullets drove us back. Trying to accommodate my not exactly sylphlike figure to that reedy pole, I wished savagely its designer were in my place. Finally, after the longest five minutes I ever spent, we risked a dash and legged it back the way we had come and sat down behind a retaining wall and wondered what to do next. Civilians in windows and balconies offered all sorts of unintelligible suggestions...
...princes-the polo-playing Nawab of Bhopal (19 guns) and the tiger-hunting Maharaja of Nawanagar (15 guns)-had more pressing business. The day before the audience they drove up resolutely to the Viceroy's house. To affable Lord Wavell they handed the resignation of the nine princes who constitute the Chamber's Standing Committee. The signatures were impressive: the Nawab of Bhopal, the Nawab of Rampur, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, the Maharaja of Indore, the Maharaja of Dungarpur, the Maharaja of Patiala, the Maharaja of Jaipur, the Maharaja of Bikaner, the Raja of Bilaspur. This...
...perimeter before German patrols caught on. By the time the Germans could muster local reserves, the Russians were moving in light guns and mortars. When the Russians held firm, the Germans called in more troops from other sectors along the river bank. In an area thus weakened, the Russians drove through a new crossing. Now the alarmed Germans began reaching back for strategic reserves, but the Russians, working quickly, joined the two bridgeheads, consolidated communications across the river, moved across in force...