Word: drove
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...minute video that the college student had posted to his profile by noon, he documents his pre-dawn drive to a nearby elementary school and explains why he chose a paper ballot over the computerized touchscreen (he didn't trust the high-tech option). By the time he drove away, a few minutes after 6 a.m. - the polling site's opening time - a line of voters had formed...
...Crimson survived the scare. Harvard’s next scoring threat came late in the second half, minutes after Dodds’ penalty stroke, when the Crimson had its one and only opportunity to tie the game. Dickson again led the attack. This time, the freshman received the ball, drove into the circle, and fired a shot on net, but Vakiener stopped the attempt and cleared the threat, preserving her first shutout of the season. Vakiener had two saves on the afternoon, while Stone registered three stops. The Big Green had a wide edge in shots...
...indefatigable Army engineer Robert Furman, who died Oct. 14 at 93, drove more than four hours through a winter storm to dedicate the offices where he had worked 64 years earlier as a key aide to the head of the top-secret Manhattan Project...
...behind the actual transactions that some traders simply let it run out. Trades happened so quickly that although people knew they were losing money, they didn't know how much. Rumors of investors jumping out of buildings spread through Wall Street; although they weren't true, they drove the prices down further. Brokers called in margins; if stockholders couldn't pay up, their stocks were sold, wiping out many an investor's life savings in an instant. So many trades were made - each recorded on a slip of paper - that traders didn't know where to store them, and ended...
...leaving a rally in downtown Indianapolis to arrive at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Honolulu time. Back east, in his second hometown of Chicago, it was already past midnight - and an hour later in Washington where he hopes to take up a famous residence next year. Sen. Barack Obama immediately drove to see his ailing grandmother, the woman he affectionately calls "Toot," at her apartment on Beretania Street, before retiring to a hotel on the city's touristy Waikiki strip. By daylight, he was again at the Beretania Street apartment, emerging at one point, dressed in a black polo shirt, dark...