Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress as it drove toward adjournment last week, the work most momentous for Business and the Nation was being done off the floor, behind the closed doors of conference rooms. Day after the 14 Wages-&-Hours conferees finally pushed back their chairs with a bill ready to be presented to both houses, another joint committee agreed on a $3,753,000,000 version of the Lend-Spend Bill, including two items ($212,000,000 for farm benefits. $1,000,000 for Rural Electrification administrative expenses) which the House would have to vote on separately this week. Meanwhile on the floor...
...Norwich Country Club Hast month], before a gallery including Mr. Gun-shanon, the pro, this boy drove a 327 yard hole entirely in the air to land on the green five feet past the pin. This feat he accomplished two out of three trys. The longest drive I have seen him make is 375 yards of which...
...evenings later, while James Bailey Cash Sr. drove out alone to a rendezvous, a stone crashed through a window at his home to call attention to another note. The thrower was heard escaping through the underbrush...
Japanese forces last week made their main push along the strategic Lunghai east-west railroad, which at Chengchow connects with the Peking-Hankow line (see map). Fortnight ago, retreating Chinese turned and drove an advance column of 10,000 Japanese, under famed little Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, "Lawrence of Manchuria," into a bottleneck area between the broad Yellow River and the railway. For nine days Chinese forces, often behind providential screens of swirling yellow dust, charged at the Japanese ranks, attempted to wipe out the 10,000. Finally Japanese reinforcements forded the river from the north under artillery bombardment, helped...
...horrified no less by Irish success than by English reprisal. When Considine was responsible for the death of a suspected spy, and then learned that the man had been innocent, his conscience rode him harder than ever. When he committed adultery with the wife of an informer, it nearly drove him crazy. When a priest refused him absolution, he dropped the revolution, gave himself up, was shot in cold blood. Kilfoyle got away, reflecting sardonically: "The Englishman loves his wife and his dog; the Irishman, his soul...