Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday, for the first time in weeks, the President strolled leisurely over to the First Baptist Church at 16th and O Streets, enjoying the 15-minute walk in the bright morning sunshine. The sermon topic: "America's Peril." In the cool of the evening he drove to the Lincoln Memorial in an open touring car, heard the National Symphony Orchestra play a presidential request number (Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik) from a barge anchored in the Potomac...
...casualties had risen to 19), Joseph Harley slipped from the cabin of his shunter and cautiously hurried across the tracks to the locomotive of the Royal Scot. He swung onto the engine's footplate, manipulated levers and throttles inside. Then he scuttled back to his own engine and drove off while the Royal Scot careened backward down the tracks, and crashed as it left the rails...
...twelve-hour day. The union claimed that on about half the 153 lake ships, striking crews had walked out. Strike leaders tried to block the Welland and Cornwall Canals, vital links between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and Montreal. Strikers swarmed aboard the freighter Goderich in the Welland Canal, drove or dumped the crew ashore, lashed the ship to the lock. The canal was blocked for 24 hours, longest delay in its history, before a Government tug could move the Goderich...
Unlovable Evan L. Evans-who always wore a dirty straw hat and a bandanna, even when he drove in one of his Rolls-Royces-is the principal monster in Frederic Wakeman's sharp, comical novel about the monstrousness of present-day radio advertising. (Author Wakeman, whose first novel, Shore Leave, has averaged a comfortable thousand-a-week sale since 1944, used to write radio commercials for Campbell's Soup, Lucky Strike...
Captain Don Swegan slammed out four singles, pilfered three bases, scored two runs, drove in one, and handled five chances in the field flawlessly to lead his team to their second victory of the current campaign over the Bruins...