Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colorado, soldiers from Camp Carson drove Army Weasels through the storm to bring out patients bound for hospitals. On the open range, the storm threatened thousands of cattle; they drifted in bunches, rumps to the wind, weakening steadily from lack of food...
Each weekday morning Louis St. Laurent was up at 8:30. After breakfast, Chauffeur Franços Dion, who has been with the family 26 years, drove him to his old law office in the Price Building, where his two lawyer sons carry on the family practice. He chatted with them about their cases, talked with the local politicians who dropped in, kept in touch with Ottawa by phone. He turned aside political questions. When a reporter asked him if he thought that he would be reelected, he cracked: "I think people are tired of extraordinary men and of extraordinary...
...Tylman took over. He yanked out the six teeth. President Perón not only liked the job; he liked Tylman. Thereafter Tylman was a regular dinner guest at the presidential residence. When he departed for the U.S. last week, Perón, Eva, Ivanissevich and other high functionaries drove out to Moron airport...
Third Round. The rearmament program was notably good news to the aircraft industry, which was saved from disaster by $2 billion in plane orders, but it scared many another businessman into a wild scramble for materials. The new inflationary pressures drove the cost of living up, month after month. And this gave labor a potent argument for its "third round" wage increases, another sharp spur to galloping prices...
With the speed and grace of an old dray horse, High Towers creaks along with the meandering story of the mighty Le Moyne family which settled in Montreal in the 17th Century, profited from the fur trade, drove the English out of Hudson's Bay, intrigued at the French court and created New Orleans. It is also a tears-and-sugar romance about Félicité and Philippe, humble hangers-on of the Le Moyne household whose love is frustrated by French colonial policy...