Word: droving
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...march continued off into the distance. The symphony returned to a lively dance with the onset of the Presto. This time, images of an elegant ball came to mind. Skirling strings and a majestic trio in between the scherzo were followed by a stately and spirited finale. The percussion drove the finale, bringing the energetic piece to its apex and the audience to its feet. Not surprisingly, the BSO was greeted with three standing ovations going into intermission. Following intermission, soloist and principal horn James Sommerville performed the 2006 Carter Horn Concerto, which was commissioned by the BSO and written...
...lesson the CEOs had clearly learned since their last disastrous appearance on Capitol Hill was the need to present a better face to their plight. They all drove hybrid or fuel-cell vehicles from Detroit, in stark contrast to the corporate jets all three arrived in last month. Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the panel and a fierce opponent of giving them any aid, grilled them on their road trips. "Did you drive? Did you have a driver?" he pressed. "Do you plan on driving back...
...three said they had carpooled or drove themselves and planned on driving back. "Where'd you stay? What'd you eat?" Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, quipped...
...federal statute that restricted the transport of obscene literature through the mail. (Anthony Comstock, the head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, was perhaps the anti-Hefner, a Puritanical zealot who is said to have bragged of the number of "libertines" he drove to suicide by prosecuting their sins...
...shots compared with the Crimson’s four. Even under so much pressure, Hoyle only allowed one goal in the period and gave Harvard a fighting chance. The Eagles didn’t get on the board unti just over six minutes remained on the clock, when Orpik drove through the Crimson’s defense and netted the first goal of the night. Harvard fought back and even showed flashes of brilliance in the second period. Shots by sophomore Michael Biega and freshman Alex Killorn came close to scoring, only to be turned away by Muse. The Crimson...