Word: drove
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...drove out of Baghdad, Yuri's camera click-clicked cautiously past rusting scrap yards in the lingering insurgent strongholds of Salman Pak, al-Hafriya and Hay al-Wahida--impoverished slums of outer Baghdad where desperation and frustration have created fertile breeding grounds for insurgents. Every so often, our driver, Sami, would yell, "Checkpoint!" Our cameras would fall to the floor, and we would try to appear innocent as weary-looking soldiers scrutinized our authorization documents in a country still suspicious of journalists' motives. There was a similar procedure for my headscarf and abaya, conservative Islamic women's attire, which...
Riding shotgun as Flo drove to Exclusive Motoring, where he was getting new rims put on his Bentley, I learned the first rule of posseing: you don't get to control the radio. Flo blasted the new album he's working on and sang along loudly. Though I feared it was not within my bounds as posse member, I politely asked if it was proper etiquette to sing along to our own music. "Oh yeah," he assured me. "If you don't feel it, how can you expect anyone else to?" I told him I loved the song with...
...some MVP votes," says Wade. Soto batted .285 with 23 home runs, none more clutch than the three-run shot he hit with two outs in the ninth inning to tie the Sept. 18 game against division rival Milwaukee (the Cubs won, 7-6, in 12 innings). He drove in 86 runs, tops among the catchers in the playoffs...
...have one sweeping break-up song on the album, "Cologne." In the middle of the song you mention the NASA astronaut who wore diapers and drove 18 hours to murder her ex-boyfriend. Why did you put such a weird story in the middle of an otherwise sweet song...
...Boy.Pierre returned to his canvas, trembling as he swirled his brush in the rich pigments and applied them to the canvas. His previous works had all involved giraffes, which made their production quite expensive. The ringmaster of the London Circus—that weaselly little degenerate!—drove a hard bargain. He felt, however, that the leopard allowed for a much higher degree of metaphorical coherence. London’s aristocratic intelligentsia would fall to their knees at the unveiling. It would be his masterpiece.On the pedestal, The Stable Boy stifled his boredom. It was the fifth modeling...