Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the weather-wise plains people battened down and bowed in submission to the storm. But in Kansas, Mrs. Maxine Laughlin, 30, of Jetmore, who was eight months pregnant, got in her car and drove to Dodge City for a prenatal checkup. The car stalled; she set out afoot and was found dead in an eight-foot drift. In Stromsburg, Neb., Myron and Emeral Johnson bogged down in their car trying to reach a veterinarian with their sick dog. Somehow the dog staggered home but the brothers were found frozen to death in a field. Near Oberlin, Kans...
...storm pounded on against the sturdy barns of Iowa's rich farms, on up into Minnesota, out over the Great Lakes. It drove boats and ships aground. Unburdened of snow, the winds whipped along the border country and on east to the sea. In Buffalo, the gale tumbled a 75-ton coal crane from its tracks, sent it plunging 60 feet through a transformer building. At Painted Post, N.Y., in a final slap, the wind knocked over an iron statue of an Indian which had stood since...
Though fiery-tempered old Leonor drove many a military wolf away from her girls, she never had to bother about a taciturn sergeant named Antonio del Rioarmenta. He was in love with young Adelita, but he was too shy to tell anyone about it. Instead he wrote a song for her, working out the tune on his harmonica. In the hospital train at Aguascalientes one day, he sang...
...plumbing equipment company, wanted a new car-in a hurry. He needed it in his business. How did he get it? A dealer "said he could get me one if I would pay him a commission of $500, which I was glad to do." A few days later, Gilbert drove off in a new 1948 Oldsmobile...
Outside, like a stiffly starched nurse in a hospital corridor, a police car drove up to the cheering crowds. "Ladies and gentlemen," admonished a loudspeaker, "it is requested from the palace that we have a little quietness, if you please. The Princess is trying to sleep...