Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yards. British and Canadian troops who had driven into Caen were stalled by Nazi forces pulled back into the suburbs of the town, across the Orne River. The main offensive push was staged by U.S. troops at the west side of the front. They drove steadily along the roads to the south, where they must break out into the base of the Normandy peninsula. At week's end patrols entered one key town, Lessay, near the west coast. But inland strong points were still held by the Germans. One day's U.S. advance toward Saint-Lô covered...
...fought down 100 miles from Changsha past Hengyang, straddling the Hankow-Canton railway on a 50-mile front (see map). In the face of Chinese high command blunders and confusion, the Japanese power reached farther south in this area than ever before. North to meet them from Canton drove another Japanese force. If the two joined, China would be split by a Japanese-garrisoned railway...
...Nazis. It was a weapon which struck again & again & again, 18 hours at a stretch. Even its sound-effects were potent: a throaty roar, then a sudden silence when the jet motor stopped and the bomb dived; then the blast. It kept thousands of Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained apprehension which the Great Blitz never matched. As inaccurate as it was impersonal, it was a weapon precisely designed for sprawling London, precisely calculated to raise havoc with civilian life...
John Llewellyn Lewis drove to the Alexandria, Va. city hall to pay his taxes like a good citizen, but got stung with a $2 fine; he had failed to put 5? in the parking meter outside...
Ernie himself was never happy at a desk. Despite his shyness, something drove him on to move around, meet new people, see new things, get his facts firsthand. For a while he wrote a successful column of aviation chitchat. In 1935, after a severe attack of influenza, he went to the Southwest to recuperate and wrote a dozen travel pieces about his trip. "They had a sort of Mark Twain quality and they knocked my eyes right out," remembers Scripps-Howard's Editor in Chief George B. ("Deac") Parker. When Ernie proposed that he become a permanent roving reporter...