Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fall River Line. Last week Joe Martin Day turned out a boisterous success. From his home in North Attleboro, Martin drove through streets decked with bunting to the City Hall, where a huge picture of him had been erected over the door. The stores had closed for the occasion and the Democratic city administration had given its employees the day off. A crowd of 5.000 waited in the drizzling rain. After his speech, Joe shook hands with everybody he could reach, and called everyone he could by his first name. He knew a lot of first names...
...type of holiday on which most bigwigs of U.S. politics were likely to embark. Involved were no state troopers, autograph seekers, photographers, special trains or big names. Big (6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs.), balding Harold Stassen just got into his 1946 Ford sedan and drove from South St. Paul to Lake Michigan's Sturgeon Bay, with his wife, Esther, his children, Glen, u, and Kathleen, 5, and the family dog, Duke. At the end of the six-hour, 321-mile trip, he lugged suitcases into a small rented cottage, changed into faded Navy khaki and settled down...
Window glass came from Czechoslovakia; the Austrian government provided enough cots for the school's dormitories. One staff group signed food contracts and arranged financial affairs in Switzerland. Later a squad drove to Prague and persuaded the Czech government to ship the first meat exports in its history to Leopoldskron. And most important, the administrators carried on a constant long-distance struggle with many European officials to obtain visas for would-be students...
Gromyko was among the first to leave, walking with his heavy, stiff shoulders carried high, head prodding forward, his face a stolid mask. Soviet car No. 1 drove up. The chauffeur smiled with a flash of stainless steel teeth, and Gromyko disappeared in a faint cloud of gasoline and mystery...
...final day President Sean O'Kelly and his wife Phyllis drove into the grounds in an open landau, surrounded by an elegant escort of blue-&-gold uniformed hussars. Two of the horses pulling the landau, unnerved by the excitement of the occasion, reared, almost overturned the landau, broke loose and dashed off. The hussars scattered. Dubliners considered this incident alone made the show a success. When Eire's No. 1 Army band (conducted by a German) played God Save the King!, Eamon de Valera smiled sourly as he stood at attention in what used to be the royal...