Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the first team had been excused, along with members of Team B who had seen a lot of action last Saturday, Harlow drove his second and third outfits through a short scrimmage, stressing running plays...
Sept. 14-A submarine wolf-pack attacked. Escorting warships scattered to cover the area with depth charges. Apparently some found targets, because debris, even green vegetables, came boiling to the surface. Twice waves of bombers concentrated on the British aircraft carrier, but protecting warships ganged up, drove them off with casualties...
Colonel Lea and Captain MacPhail had a hard time slowing down after the Armistice. On New Year's Day, 1919, they had a brilliant idea: let's capture the Kaiser. Taking six of their Tennesseans in two touring cars, they drove to Brussels, where they talked Brand Whitlock, U.S. Minister to Belgium, into giving them a pass into Holland-on a "journalistic investigation...
...comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation"; (describing William Walton's Scapino Overture) "A blithe, scapegrace carefree sort of score, it makes you think Walton must have whistled it when he drove his ambulance through the London streets, spiritually thumbing his nose at Hitler...
...quality which they shunned and derided. They called him der Sterber ("the Dier"). They called themselves "Bock's own dying heroes." But, at his command, they fought well, and by the thousands they died. With the abundance of guns, tanks and planes which Bock gave them, they drove the men of the Red Army from the hills, the valleys and the villages before Stalingrad...