Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible that many an Italian and Rumanian and even German soldier had lost his appetite for winter combat. Though Hitler had promised his armies that they would be properly clothed, the bitter northeast winds that drove snow and sand across the endless steppes last week blinded eyes, lashed flesh, cut through coats that were lined with mole and rat skins...
Theirs was the strangest battlefront in the world. Six months ago, when the Japs crossed the Salween River on their drive up the Burma Road, crack units of China's Army rushed in and drove the Japs back across the river, then took up a 200-mile-long position on the Salween's east bank. In the terrible summer heat and torrential rains of the pestilential country, they settled down to a nightmare existence...
...task force of cruisers and destroyers under Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan drove in on the Jap bombardment group. The U.S. flagship was the heavy cruiser San Francisco, the afterpart of whose superstructure had been messed up a bit by the crash of a Jap torpedo pilot the day before. Behind her steamed a column of heavy and light cruisers. Destroyers flanked the line of battle...
Admiral Callaghan swung his task force right into the main Jap forces. Without hesitation, he drove his ship, whose biggest guns were 8-in., to within 2,000 yards of a Jap battleship, which carried 14-in. guns. He led his force right between two Japanese groups, so that when he pulled out the Japs fired on each other. ("I hope," said Admiral Nimitz, telling about this later, "that the Jap gunnery was up to the usual excellent standard which they have always shown against...
Andorra's sovereignty supposedly dates back to 777, when Charlemagne drove southward against the Saracens, then padded the Christian world with little buffer states. For centuries some 5,000 Andorran mountaineers dwelt in peace, snowbound more than half the year, in their high valley-about two-thirds the size of New York City...