Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drove some time ago from Hopewell into Petersburg and noticed this sign...
...sacrifices by the American people. ... He did appoint one Andrew W. Mellon Ambassador while a resolution for the impeachment of the said Mellon was being heard. . . . Treated with contumely the veterans . . . sent a military force heavily armed against homeless, hungry, sick, ragged and defenseless men, women and children and drove them out by force of fire and sword. . . ." When the clerk finished reading, North Carolina's Pou, senior House Democrat, declared: "Mr. Speaker, I move to lay the resolution on the table." A great cheer went up as the Democratic majority, party politics aside, massed in defense...
Cautiously the British District Magistrate, supported by armed native police, advanced to reason with the sword & arrow men. Twang! went an arrow, killed a policeman. Opening fire the police killed three tribesmen, wounded four, arrested 16, drove the rest out of town...
...good will of numberless Favored Sons, Governor Vazquez Vela was ready for 5,000 ill-favored men, women & children who hunger-marched into Jalapa crying, "Bread and Shelter!" As the pleading throng approached the Governor's Palace police rushed forth, clubbed them back, jailed 60, drove the rest out of Jalapa...
Believing that battles were too often a showy waste of time, Sherman avoided fighting whenever possible. He drove back his able Southern opponent, Joseph Johnston, by continually outflanking him, got almost to Atlanta without a battle. Sherman annoyed his enemy by going at war in a businesslike, persistent way. By products of his campaign, such as living off the country, crippling the enemy by destroying property, began to make him more hated than "Butcher" Grant. But he was successful. News of his capture of Atlanta came just in time to save Lincoln from defeat at the polls. Sherman...