Word: drove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trotskyite Boss Victor Villegas, 200 men stormed police guarding the embassy. The police fired tear-gas shells, then pistols. A dentist was killed by a stray bullet. Then calm crept back to La Paz, but new violence broke out the next day in out-country Cochabamba and Oruro. Police drove off the Oruro mobs, but Cochabamba's U.S.I.S. Library was gutted. Final toll: two dead, 38 policemen injured, $50,000 damage in La Paz, $20,000 in Cochabamba...
Soon I left the lovebirds alone in their adorable house, secure that Mae is over her troubles and has found at last the joy she so richly deserves. As I drove away I thought of her wise words. "My new-found maturity makes me feel at one--with the universe...
...Born in 1913 on the farm he now owns, near Brookston (pop. 1,100), in northwest Indiana, North started in field work at the age of seven, the year after his mother died. His father bolted a box to a harrow, and North, riding in the box. drove the team. His father followed, driving another team pulling a corn planter...
Fischer and Graney wrapped up matters with single goals in the third period. After he had moved back to defense, Duncan drove a shot from the left point on Van Gerbig, who dived to make a glove save. As the puck bounced loose, Fischer was again perfectly positioned for the rebound and jammed the disk into the left corner...
...came in, he ran into such opposition from the locals that, by 1954, he had to abandon the attempt at reform and winning employer's respect through controlling an honest union. But he succeeded, nevertheless in gaining a sort of grudging admiration even from those employers with whom he drove the hardest bargain, admiration which has been increased along the same lines by Hoffa. Admitting that his contracts are so favorable to the unions as to be piratical to the owners, they nevertheless grant, "When Jimmy Hoffa says something, you know he means it. If he says his boys...