Word: droving
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...mother, Saki Kitano, pushed her children hard. She wanted them all to study engineering in college, and Beat did, enrolling at the prestigious Meiji University before growing restless and dropping out. He drove taxicabs, worked in a strip joint and then decided to try his hand at comedy. "Takeshi, you are the son of a house painter," his brother admonished him. "You will never make it in entertainment." Beat just nodded when he heard this warning. He didn't say a word...
When Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in the summer of 1990, the UN Security Council quickly passed Resolution 661, imposing a full trade embargo on Iraq that would only be lifted once Iraq had withdrawn. However, after the US-led alliance pulverized the Iraqi army and drove H out of Kuwait, the sanctions remained in place. What began as a seemingly mild punishment for a violation of international law has culminated in one of the worst man-made humanitarian disasters of all time...
Senior guard Lisa Kowal gave the Crimson its biggest lead of the first half when she drove along the right baseline and put the ball in for a 20-9 lead with 6:57 to play. The Crimson entered the half with a 31-23 lead on a lay-up from Tubridy with six seconds left...
...motives abound as two grand juries prepare to hear evidence. Corruption at the jail was supposedly so prevalent that Brown campaigned on auditing the books, firing the culprits and replacing three decades of cronyism. "Clean it up," his supporters had shouted into bullhorns the year before as they drove slowly through the towns of Decatur and Lithonia, taking Brown's homespun, outspoken style and reformist message to predominantly black neighborhoods. He was the kind of man who spoke his mind, but he did not think anyone would kill him for it. Says Phyllis: "The scary thing about this is anything...
...October 1949 the tiny Taiwanese island of Kinmen made the world's headlines as Republican soldiers drove communist forces back into the sea. A mere 1.8 km from mainland China and trapped between the jaws of two promontories, Kinmen proved difficult for the attackers to chew and swallow. For several decades the island and mainland remained only on shelling, then on yelling, terms. Bombardment continued intermittently until 1978, and vast p.a. systems broadcast propaganda each way across the narrow straight - truly a dialogue of the deaf...