Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner was the inauguration over, the captains and the troops departed, than Premier Manuel Azana drove to the Palace and insisted on handing in his resignation. Worried President Alcala Zamora called a meeting of statesmen, asked Premier Azana to form another government, which he grudgingly agreed...
...necessity took the Vagabond away from his book and drove him up to Widener. The heroic figure of Garibaldi soon evaporated in the thin, rational air of Cambridge and left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps...
...been thrown through the side of a house, the near horse was sitting in the wagon. A buckle struck a passerby, knocked him down a 30-ft. bank. Two others ran to help, stumbled, one breaking two ribs, the other cutting his face. The automobile driver started his car, drove away...
...Brooklyn, Thomas Prendergast, while driving his car, felt a sting on his nose. His nose began to bleed, would not stop. Thomas Prendergast drove to a hospital. While a doctor was examining him he coughed, spat out a bullet...
...nobility, Arthur was sent to Eton, where he failed to distinguish himself even on the playing-fields. But he throve in the army, won his spurs in India, was promoted fast. In the Peninsular War he made his reputation, showed that French troops were not invincible. Gradually, methodically he drove Napoleon's armies back to France. A painstaking rather than a brilliant soldier, he worked his men almost as hard as he worked himself. To the daily questions: what time would the staff move and what was there to be for dinner?-his answer was invariable: "At daylight; cold...