Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vicuna pelts at the embassy, got up as early as usual. On his last day he went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological wonders of Teotihuacan, ate lunch in a flower-walled tent, and marveled at the ancient Temple of Quetzalcoatl...
...tell them was in the U.S. last week. Professor Arnold Joseph Toynbee, cultural legate from a Britain in crisis to a U.S. at the crossroads, was delivering six lectures ("Encounters between Civilizations") to the history-haunted young women of Bryn Mawr College. So many students and visitors (one woman drove from Minneapolis to hear Toynbee) crammed the 1,000-seat lecture hall that people had to be turned away...
This is the second novel by Manhattan Glamor-Matron Nancy (The Manatee) Bruff, who is the wife of a Wall Street investment counsel. She tried to do some writing in Connecticut, but the birds "screaming on the windowsills" drove her back to Park Avenue. She finished Cider from Eden in a maid's room. It reads as though it had been started in a high-school study hall and completed in a girls' locker room. Miss Bruff used to have Publicity Man Russell Birdwell do her advertising, but no more. "I have had enough personal publicity," she explains...
Bill Brady dropped a long set shot to narrow the Bulldog margin to a single point, and then, as the Elis attempted to freeze the ball, Bill Henry intercepted a pass, fed Noble, and the Senior forward drove in for a lay-up which put the Crimson ahead, 43 to 42, in the first second of the final minute of play. Yale came roaring back, but lost the ball on a hasty pass, and in desperation, Nadherny fouled Noble, who calmly converted...
...round of ceremony began again. President Truman drove over to the National Palace for a formal welcome by President Aleman. At 7:30 he was back for a state dinner in the Comedor under the great crystal candelabra installed by Mexico's ill-fated Maximilian and Carlotta...