Word: droving
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...could get around only with a walker and the family felt she shouldn't live alone, a friend's trusted caretaker became available. When the Slocums grew concerned about her driving at age 85, they would probe gently, "Mom, are you still comfortable driving?" She would reply that she drove only to the grocery store, church and her women's groups. "It went in stages," recalls Slocum, "until she finally gave it up herself, which she hated...
...Guided by his temperament, not the constitution, Duterte gave his cops license to shoot anyone who resisted arrest. He drove into the hills, into the camps of the NPA and other rebel groups ravaging Mindanao and told them he understood their grievances and respected men who fought for their beliefs. But, he added, "Don't f___ with my city." If they did, he warned, "they should be prepared...
...Sept. 20, Ryan Martinito, 18, and P.J. Taporco, 19, were walking down Ponciano Reyes Street, one of Davao's main thoroughfares. Both were known cell- phone thieves who had been arrested several times and were out on bail. As several witnesses looked on, two men riding a motorcycle drove up, killed Martinito and Taporco with bullets to the head, then sped away. It was 2:30 in the afternoon...
...penalty kicks. Jo knew this was the part where she was going to awaken, because dreams always end before you get to the really good stuff. This time, though, a miraculous reality intervened. After Spanish midfielder Joaquin muffed his side's fourth penalty, Korean captain Hong Myung Bo drove the ball into the top of the net, clinching victory. "I am not sure what is real and what is a dream," said Jo, as more than 1 million red-shirted fans overran the streets of Seoul in glee. "It's like the whole world has turned upside down...
...young man beat a young woman to death with a golf club on her front lawn. When the club finally broke--on a backswing, sending the bloodied steel head flying backward across the yard--the young man kept going, stabbing the girl with the sharp splintered shaft. One stab drove a lock of her long blond hair right through her neck, like a thread through a needle. The girl was Martha Moxley. On June 7, 2002, a Connecticut jury decided the young man was Michael Skakel...