Word: droving
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...were shouting. I lifted my head and said in a loud and firm voice, ''I'm not guilty! I have nothing to confess.'' The young man from the police pulled my arms behind my back and put the handcuffs on my wrists. Then we got into the Jeep and drove off into the dark streets...
...Detention House, where I was to remain for 6 1/2 years, was the foremost detention house for political prisoners in Shanghai. It was an old establishment where the Kuomintang had once imprisoned Communists. The black Jeep drove through the main gate, along a drive lined by willow trees, then through another gate. I was undressed, searched, photographed, fingerprinted. ''While you are here, you will be known by a number,'' the man at the entry desk said. ''You'll no longer use your name, not even to the guards. Your number is 1806.'' I was taken out through another gate...
...they wore heavy, stone-proof hard plastic helmets with wraparound clear visors that hid their faces -- a space- alien effect. ''We should go back to see what happens,'' the passenger said, unthinkingly. The driver lit a fresh cigarette from the one now burning down to his fingertips and drove impassively on, away from the violence. No, the shabab would think we had brought the army back with us. Anyway the driver knew, roughly, what would happen. The territories had been living for months in a rain of stones (there was the Mercedes to think of) and in the answering adrenal...
...game was close throughout and it would be Harvard that made the final play. After Big Red guard Louis Dale made one of two free throws with 8.6 seconds left to give his team a 64-63 lead and cap a 6-0 run, Crimson sophomore guard Drew Housman drove the ball up the court. With his main option, captain Jim Goffredo, covered, Housman went right and dished the ball to Harris, who converted the baseline layup. “We were running a double screen for Jimmy,” Housman said...
Dave (Walshy) Walsh was working 65 hours a week at the post office when he began gaming. For his first tournament, in the summer of 2003, he drove to Nashville, Tenn., and crammed into a hotel room with six others. He took fifth place and won 50 bucks playing the original Halo. But by 2004 he was pulling down $1,100 per competition. In 2005 he won a new car worth $43,000, which he sold to make a down payment on a house and launch a fledgling clothing line aimed at gamers called Kiaeneto...