Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Churning the water with their feet as the sharks slashed at them, the other terror-stricken sailors drove off their tormentors. Finally Lieut. A. C. Keller spotted the survivors from his naval plane, dropped smoke bombs and plunged down in dangerous power dives which frightened off the sharks long enough for the Mendota to reach the scene, pull the exhausted mariners from the water 40 miles from the grave of the luckless Tzenny Chandris...
...year ago last week. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was re-elected President of the U. S. by the biggest vote in U. S. history. Last week, while local elections popped and fizzled through the land, the President drove to the town hall of Hyde Park to cast his vote on a ballot headed by the candidate for town supervisor. Inquired Miss Alma Van Curan, Democratic chairman of the election board...
...outside, saw that things were not going right, bumped into the front door to open it, the latch would not release and thinking that the door was locked Shaffer started to fire through the glass. Walsh and another G-man returned Shaffer's fire and drove him into the street where he was killed from various shots...
...John, convalescing after the removal of four wisdom teeth, Mrs. Roosevelt said to a group of cameramen: "I should think you'd get tired of taking my photograph." Said a rude photographer: "We do." ¶ Later in the week, in her column My Day, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote: "I ... drove over ... to talk for a few minutes with the Prime Minister of Norway, the Norwegian Minister and his wife. They were lunching with the President. . . ." Mrs. Roosevelt would have had a long wet drive had she indeed gone to see the Prime Minister of Norway, Johan Nygaardsvold...
...does not forget that the Founder of the Church was a social reformer who drove the money changers from the Temple and defended fallen women like Mary Magdalene...