Word: droving
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...Timid Iraqis waved cautiously from side streets, only to watch the invading forces rumble back out of the city. This was a mission not to take territory or wipe out an army but to make a point: Our tanks can penetrate your defenses at will, in broad daylight. "We drove through downtown Baghdad today," says a senior U.S. military official, "to show that we could...
When he turned 16, 16 months ago, Frankie Muniz gave himself a birthday present: he bought the VW Jetta that Vin Diesel drove in The Fast and the Furious. But the Muggsy Bogues-size star of Fox's Malcolm in the Middle has bigger toys in mind. He would like to own the Los Angeles Clippers. Somebody should tell Muniz that's a TV actor's ambition. If he thought himself a true movie star--and he should, having headlined last year's hit Big Fat Liar and the current Agent Cody Banks--he would dream bigger: take over...
...took the game’s first lead in the top of the seventh on Jon Finch’s two-out, two-strike double to left-center that drove...
...Tigris that leads into the city center. They may be protecting the city against looters or they may be trying to prevent competing groups of marauders intruding on their turf. The first signs of looting are already clear, however. A new car with five self-styled Kurdish guerillas drove by, telling a stirring tale of gunfights and escape and pointing to a bullethole and a smashed window in the side of the car. The car plates, however, were covered over with mud - usually a sign that a car has been looted or stolen. Local people say they have not seen...
...Inside the city, near the military airport the Americans now use as a base, teenage boys gave high-fives to the American soldiers as they went in and out. When a car loaded with looted goods - a taxi with thirty foam mattresses piled high on the roof, for example - drove past, the boys hooted and pointed. The soldiers didn't do anything. The Americans, who numbered at most a couple of thousand, admitted they could do nothing. "It's a big city," said one American soldier. "We can't control it all. We did stop there from being any ethnic...