Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when, to forestall the territorial hopes of Germany and France, she declared war on Turkey and seized the province of Tripoli. The Turks were easily dispatched but not so the Senussi tribesmen of the interior. During the War, when Italy had no men to spare for Africa, Senussi tribesmen drove the Italians back to the coast and practically reconquered the territory...
...swift backhander from Luton, the high scorer of the contest, made from a gallop, drove the ball between the bars for the first score of the game. Then after giving an exhibition of fine saving, the Harvard number one man registered again. Captain Freeman then started the Tigers off with a tally from a six man melee directly in front of the Crimson goal. Captain F. S. Nicholas '33 sent another goal through for Harvard. Crispin Cooke '32 sent a steaming shot from midfield to score in the next stanza which the Princeton back soon countered by retaliating with...
...Pagenstecher awoke with a scream, cried out that she was being attacked. Her maid heard, dashed to the rescue. The intruder transferred his attentions to her. The maid, quick-witted, seized a hatchet, which by chance Mrs. Pagenstecher had in her bedroom, and with a blow on the head drove the man from the house...
...five hundred thousand francs is neither here nor there. My discoveries and myself must be endowed with a generous hand. . . ." Parsimonious Louis declined, whereupon the money was raised for Mesmer by private subscription. Mesmeromania became the rage. He continued practicing, though without official recognition, until the French Revolution drove him, discredited and poor, out of France into obscurity. On the shores of Lake Constance he still worked on, mesmerized his own declining years with music from his glass harmonica. Though not fully understanding his own discoveries he was "the first of the new psychologists...
...Army, he first attracted outside attention in 1918 by his guerrilla warfare in Siberia at the head of a band of Cossacks against the newborn Soviet regime. England. France and Japan supported him for a while, later he drew his pay from Japan alone. Once, with 16 men. he drove a large Soviet force out of the stronghold of Manchuli in Northern Manchuria. In 1922 he went to the U. S., spent six days in New York City's Ludlow Street Jail when a Soviet company sued him for $500,000 worth of woolens he had seized in Siberia...