Word: droving
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...party drove back to Greyfield to dine on shrimp, artichokes, grilled swordfish and lemon-raspberry ice cream. More details were not forthcoming since the staff had all signed confidentiality agreements. But it is known that Senator Kennedy gave a toast more poignant than the one the previous evening. He invoked the names of John's parents and said how proud they would have been; once again many of those present were brought to tears...
Sixty years ago, no one needed hope; the screens teemed with movies about women. Strong women, saintly or desperate ones, but always smart. Greta Garbo drove men to their doom; Barbara Stanwyck did the same and went along for the ride. Carole Lombard traded quips and punches with her co-stars. Rosalind Russell ran giant corporations from her perch as executive secretary to some very soft plutocrats. Katharine Hepburn, a cool goddess, came to earth to cuddle with Spencer Tracy. Bette Davis strutted her sensationally neurotic hauteur. Joan Crawford played the unapologetic gold digger, which is how she leveled half...
...times that the Yale athletes got to spend time in a real city. As a result, they all went out on the town the night before and came back to the hotel real, real late and had bad hangovers. Nope, too stupid. Besides, they probably drove up on Saturday morning...
...supposed to achieve," says California's Henry Waxman, whose seniority would give him a choice of several committee or subcommittee posts. "The Democratic chairmen were just too wedded to their programs." It is a remarkable statement from a lawmaker who, as chairman of the health subcommittee, single-mindedly drove Medicaid's explosive growth, surreptitiously slipping expensive new benefits into massive deficit-reduction bills...
...south of the Demilitarized Zone and has more than once been the scene of infiltration by North Korean spies and saboteurs. Taxi driver Lee Jin Gyu noted the short haircuts and similar clothing on the young men and began to wonder about them. After dropping off his passenger, he drove back to the spot. The men had left, but he took a careful look around. "I went down to the sea," he says, "and saw something that looked like a dolphin or a submarine. I was certain it wasn't a fishing boat, so I reported it to the police...