Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armored trucks drove through Hornby Street, Bombay's Fifth Avenue. Police accompanied them, carrying a new weapon, canes three feet long with leather thongs at the end. With these they flogged satyagrahists (civil disobedience volunteers). They arrested 26 pickets of British stores, who within one hour were sentenced to four months hard labor. At once 26 replacements appeared before the stores...
...Hoover to his Rapidan Camp over the weekend. There they found Mrs. Hoover, convalescing from the injury to her back two months ago. The President caught a 16-in. 2-lb. rainbow trout with a black gnat fly, the season's record for him. Rain and bad weather drove the President and his party back to Washington ahead of time...
...suspicion that he was giving golf lessons to his Washington, D. C. employer. Jones missed a five-foot putt on the 8th, another at the 10th and cut his drive into a whin at the 12th. Voigt was two up. Here Voigt began to slip. He drove out of bounds and lost the 15th. At the Railway Hole he played into Principal's Nose, famed bunker. Suddenly Jones found his putting touch. Needing a long putt for a half at the 17th to avoid going home one down, he sank it. It was his most important shot...
...religious, cultural or economic discriminations against Jews. While the Ashkenazic (German) Jews of northern and eastern Europe were scuttling from one oppressive country to another. Sephardic (Spanish) Jews were looming in the Mediterranean basin as leaders in medicine (Isaac Israeli), philosophy (Maimonides), government, and in commerce. When Christians drove the Moors from Spain and devout Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews bag without baggage (1492), Sephardic Jewry declined. Some of the Spanish Jews migrated to the Netherlands. Spinoza was a Sephardic Jew. A Lisbon-born Sephardi who lived in Amsterdam was Manasseh ben Israel, who persuaded Cromwell to allow...
...Prince Frederick, Md., Jack Wildstein, motorist, met a bull on the highway, stopped politely. Impolite, the bull charged the car, butted it 15 ft. backwards. Jack Wildstein turned his car around, drove away...