Word: drove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine-looking animal, a sleek, year-old abandoned Doberman pinscher that had been tipping over garbage cans, stealing food, mating with purebred bitches, howling to the whines of fire sirens. He was also fast and smart. Time after time, beginning in the summer of 1954, Inspector Roy L. McGowen drove out to the trailer camp area where the dog foraged. Usually, McGowen could pick up a stray inside of two or three weeks. But not Maverick, the Doberman. Says McGowen: "Hell, whenever we thought we'd outthought him, he'd go a different way-over a fence...
...cheered him. A thousand dog lovers wrote and phoned the animal shelter begging for him. So great was the demand that the shelter agreed to auction him off, and last week at the auction Mrs. Doris Crown, wife of a Van Nuys aircraft-parts manufacturer, bought him for $134.88, drove him away in her red convertible Cadillac...
Because Bobby's blood made a stain on the soft green wall-to-wall carpet, Diana dashed into his bedroom for a quilt to cover his body. Then, rifle loaded for the next shot of planned mercy, she sat down and waited until her mother drove up half an hour later and started up the walk. "I saw then that there was no way I could shoot her without her seeing me, and I didn't want her to see me shoot her, so I yelled at her not to come in the house. I didn...
Midnight Ride. As we drove in the moonlight down Green Valley, which is one of Quemoy's main targets, three air bursts from Red artillery exploded 200 yards to our left. Communist artillery was going over us to the beach, and behind us into Green Valley. The driver tramped on the gas, and soon our weapons carrier was careening down the blacked-out road at 55 m.p.h. Luckily, there was no one coming the other...
...drove with the scythe and I lept