Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia. Between the Pripet Marshes and Leningrad, the Red Army smashed into the enemy in a new offensive, moved 19 miles on a 50-mile front in five days. At Kherson, 640 miles to the south, it drove the enemy from his bridgehead on the Dnieper's south bank. Question for Germans: Where would the big blow fall...
...Churchill's." President Roosevelt drove about Cairo in a special Packard, bulletproofed with sheets of glass that weighed 90 lb. He called it "my county jail." His driver was Master Sergeant Harold A. Crotta, of Butler, N.J., who proudly showed correspondents a little pile of cigar ash on the running board. Said Sergeant Crotta: "Yep. It's Churchill...
...sick were cared for in the British military hospital. We drove British ambulances, used their gasoline, rode their bicycles, ate the Indian food which some unusually smart quartermaster obtained by hiring an Indian agent to buy for us in open market...
Tenants had been cleared out of the fashionable Mena House hotel, out near the Pyramids, and troops moved in, setting up barbed-wire barricades around an area of three square miles. When the President drove in, his limousine, with curtains drawn, was led by two motorcycle out riders, two jeeps carrying four soldiers with submachine guns at the ready, a command car mounting a machine...
...Germans last week were evacuating Berlin. Through the rubble-littered streets where gangs of workers dug in dusty ruins, past forlorn groups of people standing before bombed-out homes, drove radio propaganda cars, urging women and children to leave. The newspapers, on sale again in reduced format, gave the same bleak advice to all nonessential residents. Outside the city, in suburban recreation centers, thousands camped in tents or beneath the open sky, waiting for transport...