Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train, she smiled broadly, walked straight to the Queen, over whom she towered by a full head & shoulders. Said Mrs. Roosevelt: "How nice to see you again. How are you?" Newsreels ground away as she chatted with the royal couple; the crowd let out a ready cheer as she drove to Buckingham Palace...
Treks. The provinces have been booming ever since the blitz drove actors out of London, and an evacuee audience with them. Towns like Bath, Cheltenham, Exeter, formerly one-night stands, now have A-1 ratings. Wigan, Lancashire (long a music-hall synonym for the end of the earth) recently had a full-fledged drama festival. Transportation for actors is by rail, and the same as for ordinary citizens -cramped, slow, supperless...
...Negro troops sang as they drove their tanks down the dusty roads of mid-Tennessee. Never had they been entrusted with so much expensive and noisy machinery...
...despondent winter of 1862 and Johnston decided to retreat from Manassas on Richmond, he shocked Davis by "declaring himself ignorant of the topography of the country in his rear." What shocked Johnston was to find that the secretly planned retreat was known all over Richmond. After that he drove Davis wild by keeping military secrets from...
...accomplished through a long chain of decisions and actions that involved the closest kind of calculation; he probably struck Banks's rear on the only day he could have done so. To reach the ridges south of Winchester before the Union forces could man them, he drove his men beyond exhaustion. "I am obliged to sweat them tonight," he said, "that I may save their blood tomorrow...