Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police rather than on any racial group. The force has had four chiefs in five years. Its merit system doesn't work. There is lack of cooperation between the cops and the courts; hoodlums with long records walk the streets on low bail. One man even drove a truck for the city while out on bail in a rape case...
...there. The Netherlands has already sent 5,000 of its citizens to Canada since the war's end. Canada was the first nation to give The Netherlands a postwar loan; Crown Princess Juliana lived in Ottawa during the war. Most important, it was Canada's army that drove the Germans...
...Colt drove over to the Pratt home in Fredericksburg, piled the packages in the back of his station wagon and brought them back to the red brick museum in Richmond. When he recalls how casually he treated these treasures, he shudders...
...good 16th Century Calvinist." At school in Illinois, he dutifully mastered his catechism, the doctrines of predestination and a high tariff. At home one day, young Bode remarked that something might be said for Evolution. His father rushed out of the house, hitched up his horses, and drove all day, praying for his son's soul. "For me," said Bode, "it was a period of unmitigated suffering...
Anger & Ambition. Three generations later, in 1923, the relationship between Kalyanu's grandson, Jodh Singh, and the new deputy commissioner, Hugh Upton, was more complicated. The district of Garhwal remained the same: the peasants tilled their terraced fields of millet on the mountainsides, drove their sheep and goats to the high, flowering pastures in the spring, sent their women out to gather sticks for the winter fires in the smoky stone huts. Jodh Singh, however, enjoyed the privileges won by his grandfather; he had been to Lucknow University, and he felt it his mission in life to fight...