Word: drove
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With the top prospect in the Ivy League, Ross Ohlendorf, throwing for Princeton—his 95-mph fastball has earned him first-round status—Klimkiewicz was unfazed. He drove in all four of the Crimson’s runs with a double and a homer in his only two at-bats against Ohlendorf as Brunnig earned the 4-3 victory...
Vellucci once drove to New Haven for the Harvard-Yale football game and found his way to the Bulldogs’ locker room to deliver a beat-Harvard pep talk...
...drove from Los Angeles to Miami, stopping off at every racetrack along the way, from a “dusty dirt fair” in New Mexico to more major establishments. He visited 10 tracks in 15 days and wrote an article about the pilgrimage...
...this gadgetry useful? TIME journalists test-drove the new devices to find out. We liked the adaptive cruise control and rearview cameras on the Infiniti and Lexus. One of our testers thought the parking sensors on the Jaguar XJ Series were great; another found them annoying, but everyone loved the cars' backseat entertainment...
...Hemley skillfully untangles the accusations and counteraccusations of Tasaday proponents and skeptics, but when he narrates his own fact-finding travels in the Philippines, he can be risibly naive. He tells the reader everything he wrote down in his notebook, interesting or not: "We drove for half an hour, past rice paddies, water buffalo and palm trees." Invented Eden has many such sentences. Worse, Hemley is a complainer, which is no more fun in a book than on the trail: the roads are muddy, his saddle hurts, the locals rip him off, his asthma acts...