Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sports expert, he drove the experts wild. He once announced the wrong winner at the Poughkeepsie regatta, another time caused Ring Lardner, who sat near him while he was announcing a ball game, to observe that there had been a double-header-the game that was played and the one that McNamee announced. But he had a knack of being breathless, exciting even when describing the hills behind the Rose Bowl, and the fans loved him. At one World Series game, delayed by rain, he cheerfully draped his raincoat over himself and the mike and ad-libbed for 60 minutes...
Harvard came up for last licks with visiting hurler Nick Nichols confident of victory. Billy Parsons pinch hit for Berg and was tossed out by Nichols. Then Cleo O'Donnell, subbing for Heath, drove a looper to center, advancing on Stort Waldstein's walk...
With a force estimated at 25,000 regulars, parachutists and commandos in the field, covered by carrier-borne planes and supplied by a fleet of 23 fighting and transport ships, the newest BEF drove 20 miles across the narrow northern tip of the great Indian Ocean island, fought its way into Diego Suarez streets and threatened momentarily, after a two-day campaign, to sieze the naval base from the rear...
...deficit from the mile mark on, as the rough water hindered both crews in raising the stroke. Over the last twenty strokes the bows were exactly even, and as both strokes were catching at the same time, the relative positions of the two shells never changed as they drove to an exciting, if inconclusive finish...
After the visitors had teed off on Irv Rudman for three runs in the first, the Yardlings came back with one tally when Vinnie Leahy and Jim Apthrop singled, and Jim Gallagher drove in a run by hitting into a double play. The victors scored two more in the third and one in the fifth...