Word: droves
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some months before, this Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Riffs and once a German agent, had conducted numerous pillaging expeditions in the Wergha Valley in French Morocco, which is the south side of the Spanish zone. The French countered by occupying the valley in force. The Spanish blockade drove the Riffs to depend more and more for supplies on their agents in French Morocco. This move was accompanied by inciting other Moroccan tribes to revolt against the French. France took action to protect the natives. Abd-el-Krim replied by declaring that the occupation by French troops...
Some took a shower. Some drove automobiles in a general northerly direction. A few of the more intelligent paid ten cents and studied on the benches in the subway. Some looked longingly at the Charles, but realized that they had no place in which to take the necessary cleansing shower afterward. Everyone agreed, in Mark Twain's phrase, that something ought to be done about the weather, but no two opinions coincided...
...seventh, the second Hammond triple scored a run, when Rogers lifted a long sacrifice fly to Ray in center-field. The last Crimson tally came in the eighth off Price, who replaced Hamilton. Zarakov drove a sharp grounder through second base and took third on Roland's hit to the same place. Todd walked, and Samborski scored Zarakov with a high sacrifice fly to right field. Tobin lined to the third baseman who caught Roland at the plate...
Twelve strike-outs with two hits, one of which drove in the tying and winning runs, formed the individual contribution of Puffer to the 7 to 6 win scored by the Crimson Seconds over the Yale Seconds on Saturday. He worked the entire nine innings for Captain Amsden's nine and except for a home run in the fourth from the bat of Lackey with the bases full, he kept the Blue team well in hand...
Brown scored once in the second, and in the fourth drove Roulmin to the showers with a barrage of hits, one of them a homer by Keeper, which left the Brunonians but two runs astern as Spalding took up the pitching burden. A pass, a triple by Hoffman, and a single by Ruckstall evened the score in the fifth. Three more safeties accounted for another score in the seventh, putting Brown ahead, and an error by Slayton paved the way for two superfluous tallies in the eighth...