Word: drove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hammond's win in the fly, after nearly coming off a sick bed to do so, pointed up a magnificent team display. Trailing for most of the race, the varsity captain drove with a tremendous push for the final lap to pass Baker short of the finish...
...Tory barrister, William Rees-Davies, answered Paget. Acting for various church groups who own much property in the red-light areas, Rees-Davies had interviewed some 250 prostitutes, concluded that what drove the vast majority into their profession was sheer "laziness." One prostitute, he reported, drove up to his office in a Rolls-Bentley, asked his help in freeing her boy friend, who had been charged as a pimp. She said that she earned $17,000 a year and paid no income tax because "it has all been paid by those who give me presents...
Fidel Castro's "purification" of Cuba rolled on, harsh, moralistic, fervid. Purified was the vast gambling establishment, purified was government graft. Purification also drove the bearded conquerors to set aside more and more of the constitution in order to purge the losers by firing squad. Castro's men, immune to such worldly blandishments as alcohol and money, found their grim satisfactions in rows of executed Batista henchmen...
Last week, as the wedding guests drained 40 cases of bubbly hard cider provided by Papa Espin, a Bacardi distillery official, a chorus of little girls insisted: "A kiss, a kiss." Bashful Raúl leaned over, gave Vilma a peck; then the couple drove off for a one-night honeymoon, guarded by rebel gunners. Among the guests at the wedding were four of the U.S. mining technicians who had been kidnaped by Raul and Vilma. They chipped in for a silver ice-bucket and gave it to the newlyweds with a good-luck card...
...Triumvirate. For the selling job, Cushing called on two fellow Harvardmen for help: George Weller. globe-trotting reporter for the Chicago Daily News, and Marshall Haseltine, urbane expatriate who lived in Europe. Weller got a leave of absence to work with Cushing. He drove into Squaw Valley over the rutted dirt road from State Highway 89, took one horrified look and decided on the spot that the pitch had to be a return to Olympic ideals of togetherness and simplicity, in contrast to Europe's ornate resorts...