Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very beautiful Bugatti racing car which was kept in the peak of condition by a French mechanic. I was . . . pretty horrified by the fact that the car was lubricated with castor oil. O'Neill used to take the car put for a daily spin during which he drove it at very high speeds along the crown of the straight French roads. That was the Bugatti's only purpose. There was another car for the purpose of transportation...
...cops drove up, observed the proceedings and went into the caretaker's office to keep warm. Since the veterans were deserving 13th Ward boys, no 13th Ward politician was inclined to disturb them. In fact, a few precinct captains hurried around to help. Nobody interfered as the squatters began bringing furniture and clothes and getting their wives and children settled...
Habeas Corpus. In San Francisco, a thief stole a car, drove it 18 blocks, abruptly abandoned it when he found that he had a coroner's wagon plus corpse...
Pass interceptions paved the way for the Bellboy touchdown and margin of victory by setting the Gold Coasters back deep in their own territory. When two penalties thwarted an attempt to score from the five, Lowell intercepted again on the 40, from where Bill Ayres drove to the 25. Loring Briggs flipped a short pass to Pat Bowditch in the fl at and Bowditch went over standing up. Dan Silver, whose kickoffs this season have suggested big-time football, booted the extra point...
...modern art owes a lot to Russia, and especially, in a backhanded way, to Lenin. In 1921 Lenin found time for a campaign-much like Hitler's later one-of "organized indignation" against modernists in Russia, which drove the incorrigibles from the country. In exile they contributed to the main stream of European art history. Among them: expressionist Marc Chagall; the late abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky...