Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burglar Alarm. In The Bronx, thieves hijacked Otto Meucci's truck in the night, drove it only a few minutes, quickly abandoned it when its horn short-circuited, arousing the neighborhood with its deafening blast...
...week the President slept an hour or two later than usual, ate well and relaxed. He even drove a car-a rare privilege for a President-on the Overseas Highway. It was just what the doctor ordered to knock the nagging cold he had taken south...
Dick jumped in like a man trying to beat a run on the bank. He went for the tigers first-they cost $1,000 apiece. But when he drove them up to the shelf with the buggy whip, big lions piled up at the chute and began killing little lions...
...people's choice. He was an hour and a half late to his own inauguration and late to almost every public ceremony thereafter. He called himself "The Late Mayor." He filled city offices with sluggish Tammany favorites. He kept a wardrobe of 70 $165 suits, drove about the city in a $17,000 Duesenberg. He lolled happily at the fabulous Central Park Casino with his mistress, musical comedy star Betty Compton (whom he afterwards married). Jazz-happy New York loved...
...take cooking. It's just like jazz; no matter how good the ingredients are, it's how they're put together that counts." The speaker drove home his point with the help of a persistent, snappily manicured forefinger while overhead towered a big-busted swing singer traced in white tempera on the vine-colored wall which goes around the Savoy. He had a bald, top-shaped head ornamented with rimless glasses. This combined with the soft-spoken, non-alcoholized manner of speaking to which he kept doggedly despite the competition of a vociferous alto saxophone gave...