Word: drove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every right to expect that new Premier de Gaulle should make the first visit to him in London. Instead, last week, as a gesture of good will, Macmillan flew to Paris. Obviously pleased, protocol-conscious General de Gaulle, who rarely leaves his own office when he is in Paris, drove out to the airport in his shiny new Citroën DS 19 to greet his English visitorj in person...
...guide journalism. To Post executives, fretting at the paper's wild machinations, Fox had a stock answer: "No one has ever measured the capacity of the American people to absorb manure." John Fox, yardstick in hand and a slug of bourbon within reach, gave it a try-and drove the Post into bankruptcy court. One of those pulling the plug on Fox was Friend-Turned-Enemy Bernard Goldfine...
...young Bas Wie remembered the happier days of the bighearted Australians, who not only drove the Japanese away, but gave him candy, bully beef and rides in their trucks, until it was time for them to go home. One night in August 1946 Bas Wie thought of his old friends again as he nursed the raw bruise on his belly where the cook had, as he did so often, just kicked...
Fast-Money Fans. Day and night fans churned through Stockholm's streets and stirred up their share of excitement. Arrogant West Germans flashed their money in local bistros, drank too much, drove their sleek Mercedes cars too fast, even earned a rebuke from one of their own papers, Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "We are scared of you ladies and gentlemen-even more in the case of victory than the case of defeat." To the paper's relief, Sweden beat the Germans...
...another break when the big boats up ahead ran into a calm. While they slatted helplessly, the smaller boats like Finisterre closed the gap the big fellows had opened up. On the last day, when storms made up in the southeast, Finisterre held her own in dusty going and drove home an easy winner...