Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans dumped troops, weapons and supplies onto Crete in gliders and drove the British imperial troops from the island after a few days fighting. Their use in the Black Sea battle might indicate an attempt to invade the Crimea...
After the broadcast the Shah sent a messenger to Britain's whip-smart Minister Sir Reader William Bullard. The gist of his message: "What do I do now?" The answer, polite but inflexible, was what the Shah expected. Getting into his limousine, he drove to town. There he left a letter with his brand-new Prime Minister Ali Feroughi. Then he drove south, 200 miles to Isfahan...
...hours newsmen drove down convoy-jammed highways, slithered over muddy, narrow back roads. They slept in damp fields and sometimes were lucky to get two hours' sleep a night. For days they got no baths. They ate canned rations, or sometimes they did not eat for 24 hours at a time. In short they went through much the same thing as the troops...
...General. He had stepped out just before the raiders appeared. Six of the seven raiders were promptly captured. Umpires ruled that they had gone too far: instead of being marked with broad Blue arm bands as the rules required, they wore tiny Blue ribbons on their hats. They also drove a deceptively marked vehicle. They were disqualified, and the effects of their raid canceled. But for this overreach, Ben Lear might have been compelled to run his army with a skeleton staff...
Unlike his colleague, "Frisky" Merriman, Professor Murdock has refused for several years to act in the annual House play. When he once played a drunken porter who drove the other characters off the stage with a blunderbuss, the audience went wild, and he modestly decided not to tempt fate with another appearance...