Word: droves
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ninh, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, the attacks were no more than random artillery or rocket barrages. At Tan An, which straddles strategic Highway 4 and is only 20 miles southwest of Saigon, Viet Cong commandos overran the airstrip and held it for eight hours before government troops drove them...
...hard we argued we couldn't win him over, and unless he relents I will just die...Nick is just the most perfect person in the world...Mother read my diary yesterday and I am so mad at her I can't speak... Yesterday old ----------came over and he drove me around for an hour and kept trying to convince me that I should take him back! I'm so mad I just can't speak. No one can ever take Nick's place...
...friends as she had included Nick. He was now deeply involved in a conversation with her younger companion, a pure country sapling of a girl who spoke in an uncut twang and who retreated into a scared doe shyness as she smiled at the music. The woman said she drove trucks every now and then, when she wasn't working at a local truck stop...
After some heart-to-heart talking with the mother. Nick and she agreed that the girl needed to develop some confidence in herself. The woman drew a map on a napkin, and Nick drove me back to the motel on the expressway...
...told her to move over and got in the driver's side. She asked me where we were going and I told her to wait and see. When I drove out on the street she ducked down. I pulled around the motel where we have a single car garage. Pulled the car in and shut the door. Penny said: "You're crazy if you think I'm getting out!" I took the keys so she had no choice. We went to my room. She said, "There isn't even a chain on this door!"...I told her that...