Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time, as the arriving U.S. delegation quietly drove through Paris, there were no pilgrims to proffer prayers and roses. No one thought of cheering "Byrnes the Just." Whatever the Peace of Paris might bring, it would not cause the corrosive disillusionment which came in the wake of 1919's extravagant hopes. On the conference's opening day, police set up wooden barricades near the Luxembourg Palace to keep the crowds back-but there were no crowds. At lunchtime, the Prefect of Police personally inspected the whole palace to make sure that it contained no bombs. Then...
...went out but was in again when war came, and this time he made his big mistake: he publicly advised citizens not to register for conscription. Three days later, a squad of Mounties drove him off to the internment camp at Petawawa, where he stayed for four years...
After Bob Carlson grounded out second to first, Crawford Hubbell's single drove Senseney in, ending the Crimson scoring for the afternoon...
Mobile Unit. In Kansas City, Traffic Cop John R. Duncan watched agape as a motorist drove through a busy intersection while shaving with a battery-driven electric razor...
...themselves on any street-except the main street. The streets and roads are so bad that when anyone travels any distance in and around Archangel in a car, it is news and is reported as such. Pravda Severa, published in Archangel, carried an item about a doughty citizen who drove for six versts (four miles) with his entire family to attend a local celebration. He has my deepest respect...