Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pulled to a stop, a German in civilian clothes stepped out of the cafe and made a mysterious signal. At once a gang of civilians rushed across the border from Germany, firing wild shots (one of which killed Mynheer Klop). The civilians bundled their captives into another car, and drove across the border. Secret Agents Stevens and Best were arrested...
...gloomy autocrat, Bodanzky drove every performance he conducted with a tight rein, lashed world-famed tenors and sopranos at rehearsals with a hot tongue ("Who told you you could sing?"). When he was feeling impatient he would sometimes drag a performance over the jumps as if he were rushing for a train. But when Artur Bodanzky felt just right, he could drive a pack of Valkyries through the Nibelung clouds like Wotan himself...
Miss Campbell stopped for breakfast at Reich's Cafe on Dubuque Street, where she works for her board three hours an evening as cashier. Then she drove six miles across the prairie to her school in Scott Township. It is a square, white frame building between a pasture and ; field of yellow corn stubble. Miss Campbell unlocked the door, lit a fire in the big Waterbury stove in the corner. Soon, trudging up the road from nearby farms, most of them in overalls or slacks came Miss Campbell's pupils: the seven Sladek children, three Smiths, two Leonards...
Jumping off from Hainan Island, which the Japanese have held by squatters' rights since February, a combined Army-Navy party braved a monsoon and heavy rain, landed on the China coast near Pakhoi, about 100 miles from the Indo-Chinese border, and thence drove inland toward the city of Nanning. This was their long-expected drive to cut the routes to China from French Indo-China and British Burma. It was a threat not only to China (which will be dry as a rootless tree if the routes are cut) but also to French and British and indirectly Dutch...
...Some students who refused to be herded broke from the rest, dashed into old Palace Square. Since they seemed bent on nothing more than singing Czech and Slovak national anthems, the unarmed Czech police were all for letting them alone, but German civilians with drawn revolvers suddenly appeared and drove the police to drive the students back to their university...