Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time last week Leftists holding the battered city of Teruel which they captured at Christmas time seemed to be in danger of losing it. Rightist troops using the springboard of a recent advance to the Alfambra River, drove on Teruel itself from three sides, then purportedly cut the last rutted Leftist supply road, isolating 10,000 Leftist soldiers. But the garrison resisted stubbornly. This week, as men of both sides fought hand to hand on Teruel's outskirts. Rightists opened a bombardment of the city with their heaviest artillery, sent a bombing fleet over it. Thereupon the Leftists...
After breakfast Mr. Chamberlain received Count Grandi who left No. 10 grinning. Then the Prime Minister drove to Buckingham Palace and King George kept Mr. Chamberlain for lunch...
Final sensation in the House of Commons lobby was the invasion of a turbulent British crowd shouting "Chamberlain must go! Hitler and Mussolini shall not dictate to Britain! Arms and food for Spain! Eden must stay!" Police drove them...
Belgium's Fascist party, the Rexists, led by Léon Degrelle, frankly resorts to burglary and theft to obtain private papers with which to smear its opponents. Such tactics drove from office Premier Paul van Zeeland, although he later vindicated himself in the Belgian Parliament. By last week Rexists had turned their attention to Minister of Health Arthur Wauters...
...evening that the first issue went to press (and many press nights thereafter), the entire full-time staff got into a taxicab, carrying the entire editorial reference library (Who's Who, World Almanac, Congressional Directory} and drove to the printers on Manhattan's 11th Avenue...