Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trailing 5 to 3 at the beginning of the third period, the Yearlings fought their way out in front as leftwingman Larry Ward drove home two of his total of five markers in quick succession and Gid Loring whacked Haven Abbett's pass into the not for the clincher...
...Best." From the station, General Marshall went to his old office in the Pentagon Building. He looked at his mail, brushed his hair and washed up. A few minutes before eleven, he drove to the White House. As he strode in, the waiting crowd in the lobby burst into spontaneous applause...
...quick outline of what he was getting into. Back at the State Department, Marshall picked up the top-secret statements of U.S. policy on each country of the world. Then, for three quarters of an hour, he submitted patiently to the traditional ordeal by camera. At 4 p.m., he drove off for Leesburg and his first look at his colonial house since last spring...
...Banion was rubbed out. His mob half-killed Johnny Torrio with shotgun slugs, broke his nerve and drove him out of town. For a while, the O'Banions were as tough as Al's mob. Its leaders were hard and ambitious-George ("Bugs") Moran, Vincent ("The Schemer") Drucci and Earl (Hymie) Weiss, the rosary-fingering inventor of the one-way ride. One day seven automobile loads of O'Banion men parked in front of Al's GHQ in Cicero and riddled it with Tommy guns. Al escaped. The O'Banions were not really broken until...
...flames had flared first last year in Leon, where trigger-happy soldiers killed 27 citizens demonstrating against a municipal government that had been "imposed" by bosses. Nationwide indignation drove the governor and mayor from office. Fire blazed again on New Year's Eve when police killed ten demonstrators at Tapachula. on the Guatemalan frontier. There the governor took hasty leave of absence...