Word: drove
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...paper concludes that the country was instead misled by reckless military officers like Tojo -- a verdict surprisingly similar to the one reached at the Tokyo War Crimes trials, which many conservatives had long insisted was biased. "Japan," the editors of the Yomiuri write, "in a sense drove itself over a precipice." With fresh leadership on the horizon, Japan has a chance to reexamine Yasukuni and pull back from another precipice...
...bungalow in Portland, Ore., on the market and moved into an 84-sq.-ft. cabin on wheels that she built using salvaged cedar, torn-up jeans for insulation and solar cells for power. Then she hitched her tiny house to a biodiesel truck and drove to Olympia, Wash., where friends agreed to let her park in a grassy corner of their backyard. Although Williams, 43, admits that she misses having room for friends to spend the night, she says, "I love my tiny house...
ARRESTED. Al Unser Sr., 67, and Bobby Unser Sr., 72, car-racing legends; after the brothers separately drove through a roadblock abutting a street named after the Unser family, where a SWAT team had cornered a violent carjacking suspect who ended up fatally shooting himself; in Albuquerque, N.M. Police said they repeatedly warned the Indy 500 champs to leave before arresting them. The Unsers, who were trying to drive to their property, said they did not know the area was a crime scene, denied any wrongdoing and decried the use of unnecessary force. The incident, said Al, was "embarrassing...
...young to see Lenny at a night club, but my older brother Paul and his bride-to-be Pat Thompson drove across the Delaware to Pennsauken, N.J., where Lenny was playing at the Red Hill Inn. (Consulting The Complete Lenny Bruce, Daniel V. Smith's devotional and very valuable website, I'd judge that this was either April or November 1960.) After the set, Lenny came over to the bar, where my brother was. When Paul said he had a kid brother who was a big fan. Lenny picked up a paper coaster and wrote on it: "To Richard ? Your...
...attended his concert at Philadelphia's Town Hall. It would be his last performance in my town except for three appearances at Central Magistrates Court after a drug bust. (Prescription drugs; he was acquitted.) And in 1964 I drove up to New York to see his Easter weekend stint at the Village Theater (later the Fillmore East). Four shows, all 11,000 tickets sold; I caught the late show, midnight, on Saturday. He did plenty of material about his legal vexations, but Lenny was still a spieler who could mesmerize his audience for two hours plus ? a great gig. (There...