Word: droves
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...smoke, lights glared on a little square wherein a white man, a black man, opposed each other. Tom Gibbons, famed for lasting 15 rounds against Jack Dempsey at Shelby, was fighting Kid Norfolk. Four rounds went by. Black Norfolk bounded, attacked; White Gibbons stepped lightly out, stepped briskly in, drove his fists against the sleek black ribs, the shiny black face. The fifth round came. No longer did the black man attack. Just before the bell rang he fell down on his knees like a bullock. In the sixth round a right to the jaw sent him down again...
...generals then walked down the stairs, drove to Chapultepre Castle for an informal reception, after which they attended a bullfight...
...imbued with some of that idealism that lit the soul of the late ex-President Woodrow Wilson. But in Mexico of that day he was not understood. From the position of Mayor of Fronteras, the proud Mexican aristocrats forced him. Not a public office was open to him. This drove him to the "soap-box"; and his so-called Radical speeches inflamed the workers to red-hot enthusiasm for him, his enemies to bitter hatred...
...kick he softly stole. And with the other drove it thro' the Goal...
...biting cold yesterday afternoon drove the entire squad to the seclusion of the baseball cage and locker building, where the Brown game was carefully gone over and the faults of the team pointed out. The line-ups in the cage were continually being changed: The following was the strongest combination at any one time: ends, Chase and Dean; tackles, Lindner and Taylor; guards, Dunker and Theopold; center, Greenough; quarterback. Stafford; backs, Hammond, Sayles, and Howe...