Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states were created, Poland and the Baltic States among them. Almost at once the Poles found themselves in a new war with the Russians. Marshal Pilsudski led the Polish Army to Kiev to support Hetman Petlura's attempt to carve out an independent Ukraine. The infant Red Army drove out Petlura, chased Pilsudski to the gates of Warsaw. There, General Maxime Weygand of France, in collaboration with the Polish general staff, devised a brilliant strategy, sent the Russians stumbling back...
...Year's Day morning 10,900 racegoers-tourists, servicemen and shipyard workers on their way home from the night shift-shoved $453,103 at the clerks behind the pari-mutuel windows-twice as much as they bet last New Year's Day. Many of them drove their cars to the track, though the gasoline shortage in Florida is so acute that big trucks operated by the Overseas Transportation Co. to carry food to isolated Key West are unable to get enough gas to keep to their schedules. That afternoon 28,000 cheering football fans jammed the Orange Bowl...
Beyond the Town. The German resistance was skillful, fanatic. But the Canadians went ahead relentlessly, day after day, house after house. They defied the Nazi flame throwers, bayoneted the enemy shock troops in the basement dugouts. Last week they drove the last German from a town where every building lay leveled or gutted...
...December 1938, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye proclaimed Japan's plan to create a peaceful New Order in East Asia. In October 1941, the war-minded Army drove the weak-bodied, peace-minded Prince into retirement. Last week he was resurrected to head the Government's new Japan-China Society. Brutality had failed to win cooperation in the occupied areas; now persuasion and propaganda were to be given another chance. The Society's aim, according to the Tokyo radio: "To drive home to the hearts of one billion Asiatics the lofty ideas of the Greater East Asia...
Quarry. In Hollywood, a skeptical judge imposed a $30 fine on Autoist Josephine Lee, who had said that she drove at great speed in order to keep sail ors from getting into...