Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm drove steadily on. In the Midwest, temperatures fell to zero or below. In Chicago, nine steel radio towers buckled and fell in eight hours as a gale roared across Lake Michigan. Maine was peppered with hailstones as big as buckshot. Buffalo was treated to lightning and thunderclaps. A collier broke from its pier at North Weymouth, Mass., was blown across the Fare River, crashed into another wharf...
Three days before Christmas, Melvin Hass, 28, an ex-major of infantry now an oil company employee, did what thousands of Kansans were doing to fortify themselves for the holidays. He drove to Missouri, bought two bottles of bourbon for himself and seven bottles for some friends and toted them in his car back to bone-dry Kansas...
...Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison. When he heard he would have to give up his remaining rubles at ten for one, he was so upset he stumbled over his wolf trap, upsetting a tombstone which broke a bottle of bug poison, the fumes of which drove his wolfhound...
...bustling in & out. On Christmas Eve, before a chilled crowd of 10,000 Washingtonians, he appeared on the White House lawn for the traditional lighting of a community tree. Christmas afternoon, he trudged out to the White House garage to shake hands with all the chauffeurs. He drove to the Navy's Bethesda Hospital and the Army's Walter Reed Hospital to greet disabled veterans. He received a cocker spaniel pup named Feller, the first presidential dog at the White House since the Roosevelt Scottie, Fala...
...been none. The British built a fortress at Ramzak and managed to enforce a semblance of order by punitive expeditions and judicious bribery. But the Wazir chieftain, the Fakir of Ipi, also known as "the Firebrand,"kept a holy war going against the British. Every year, when the tribesmen drove their sheep into Kashmir to graze, the British actually induced them to check their weapons at collection centers. Theoretically, the new state of Pakistan was to take over Fort Ramzak and the Waziristan problem. Pakistan had neither the money nor the enlightened stubbornness to cope with them. Tribesmen had already...