Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later Japan's precise-mannered young Emperor Hirohito. who does not like such openly greedy talk, drove in panoplied procession from his palace to the dingy, stuccoed Parliament Building. There The Son of Heaven read the proclamation opening the 67th session of the Diet, which promptly recessed. When it finally gets to business at month's end, it will presumably swallow its medicine: Japan's all-time high in defense budgets, a monster achievement of the military clique which Sadao Araki heads...
...years Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. had succeeded in avoiding all efforts to raise its taxes because the county commissioners who assessed its property obligingly postponed hearings whenever the Attorney General came to protest, held the hearings when no protester was at hand. Night be fore a scheduled hearing, Allred drove to the neighborhood of the county seat, slept in his car, drove into town just as the hear ing opened in the morning, made himself heard...
More needed at the moment was tact. Fortnight ago a Captain Justice, no member of the British expeditionary force but a onetime British officer and automobile racer who had enlisted in the Saar international police, drove his friend the Earl of Aylesford and a German girl named Käthe Braun home after a high time in a café. Swinging his car around a corner he climbed the sidewalk, ran over the foot of a Frau Steig. Immediately the street was full of caterwauling Germans. Captain Justice whipped out his service revolver, fired two shots. One slightly injured...
...love with the place. Years later, after a tragic but successful marriage, she met Venn again. He proposed immediately, and she married him. When he discovered it was the island she loved, not himself, he spent his life plaguing her, trying to change her allegiance. Until his jealousy drove him into murdering her confidante and only friend, Shirin was imperturbable. But then, knowing she had diphtheria and that if Venn caught it he would die, she gave him the Judas-kiss he wanted...
...circumstances seem to have demanded stronger measures from a female rat recently observed. At the same time as her litter was removed, a male was placed in her cage. Immediately she drove him to a corner in the forefront of the cage, where he was obliged to stand on his hind legs and to remain so standing, while she excitedly brought pieces of hay, and, literally, walled him in. The hay was patted in place, to the full height of the cage, so that she might not see him. She herself was totally without bedding ultimately. The state of siege...