Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the winds were beginning to blow. Between showers the sun shone fitfully and there was a moon for night plowing. As Eire's farmers drove their spades deep into the soggy earth, Eire's priests prayed for the fine weather to hold. "A grand campaign of prayer and work will save us," said Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory...
...Snow Red was avoiding reeducation. When the reinforced troops reached Taichu, she and two truckloads of men drove into the cool green mountains of the interior near Jitsu-Getsu San (the Mountain of Sun and Moon), toward shelter among the Formosa aborigines, whom neither the Manchus (in 212 years) nor the Japs (in 51) could ever reeducation...
...Amazons of Greek mythology were women who killed or drove from their territory all males, including their own male children. Once a year they got together with alien males for a brief visit and procreation...
Tactics & Strategy. George Marshall drove himself and his colleagues hard. One incident was typical. Bevin suggested that the deputies for Austria be asked to submit their report. Molotov objected: "The Austrian deputies may not be prepared to report on such short notice." Whereupon Marshall snapped in his crispest military tone: "The American deputy will be ready." Half an hour later, the American deputy (General Mark Clark) was told at his hotel to make a progress report next day. Cried he, aghast: "We made a report on London. You mean progress here?" Then he stalked off to write a report...
This week, on Sunday, he drove to the First Baptist Church in a torrential rain. With members of his party he sat near the rear. Pastor J. C. Yelton, who had had only ten minutes' notice of the President's arrival, sang the offertory solo himself, preached on the subject of peace. As the skies began to clear, the President decided to extend his vacation by two days...