Word: drove
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...Bell drove into the paint looking for her own shot and was halted by a Big Green double team before she got a shot off. The ball fell out of bounds, and the officials gave Dartmouth possession with 15 seconds remaining...
With the Crimson trailing 22-20 just over a minute into the second half, Norman sliced through the lane and finished with a difficult layup. Two possessions later, he drove into the paint again, laying the ball in with his left hand and drawing the foul...
With a four-inch, 17-pound size advantage, Welch drove his shoulder into Broad—and lifted him over the dasher and into his own bench...
...primary sex objects: fast, shiny, glamorous and aerodynamically smooth. Madison Avenue sold the car as woman. Playboy sold the woman as erotic machine. The Playboy man could drive her as NASCAR speeds, stop when he felt like it, trade her in for a new model as the whim drove him - not once a year, as Detroit pressed him to, but every month, in the Playboy centerfold...
...What drove Fountains of Wayne to Stacy's Mom was the usual soul-killing nightmare of the music industry. Schlesinger and Collingwood, both 36, met as undergraduates at Williams College and soon after started Fountains of Wayne (named after a lawn-ornament store near Schlesinger's New Jersey home), adding bassist Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young along the way. They signed a major-label deal with Atlantic Records in 1996 and were promptly buried by everything else on the radio. "There's this expression, Bo-Now music," says Collingwood. "It's that whole genre where singers just scream...