Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First involved were the thousands pouring through the massive Doric columns of the Brandenburger Tor on their way to homes in the Russian sector. An open truck carrying some dozen Soviet-sector police drove towards them up Unter den Linden-apparently dispatched with the vague intent of keeping order. The crowd jeered them; rocks followed jeers and the melée began...
From the ruins of the old U.S. Embassy a rain of bricks and stones drove the first police back in retreat and pelted every Soviet-licensed car in sight. Then reinforcements sped up and the crowd fell back; pistol shots cut the air and the first man fell, pitching forward on his face. In the minutes that followed, the crowd rolled back & forth repeatedly through the columns of the Tor, as its courage alternately flared and faltered. As a whole it was not a bold crowd: one bunch that halted a Soviet car beat a hasty retreat when the officer...
...understand how it could have been that no one was there or that he started away which caused it-when it was done and no one there I walked some distance to the car and drove away as it meant that I could call you and say I love you, which I so wanted...
...drove for long hours. At 4 a.m. he walked wearily into the Albion Hotel at Asbury Park, and asked for a room. He registered as Fred Ellis...
...Onetime Indianapolis Speedway Driver Cliff Bergere drove a 15-block course in Colorado Springs, Colo., carefully adhering to traffic rules, finished in 9 minutes and 35.1 seconds. Then, with police permission, he went around again at illegal speeds; he broke 52 traffic rules but, he said, was able to cut only 3.9 seconds off his previous mark...