Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother could taunt thus savagely, the attitude of the Court may be imagined. Little Wilhelm, brilliant, neurotic, effeminate, afraid, was driven to wrench up the very roots of his personality. He would show them! He did. After a purgatory of physical suffering he learned to use his withered arm, to ride, to swagger and to bluster-though he drank little, and did not, says Herr Ludwig, acquire the manly art of "talking bawdy." At last, even grizzled old Wilhelm I, his grandfather, said of his horsemanship at maneuvers, "Well done! I could never have believed you could...
...down in the boat John sat in the upper deck, regaling his crowd of "friends" until midnight brought a protesting officer. Upon arriving in New York, the mascot was draped in crimson flags and scarfs, taken all over the city, given dinner at the Hoffman House, and driven to the field in a coach...
...wrote his famous lines reminiscent of a certain curve in the Charles River Parkway, the bright lights of Revere Beach, and soft moons seen from the rumble seats of innumerable roadsters. Having recklessly indulged in his first ice cream cone of the year and permitted himself to be driven around the Wellesley campus the sage frequenter of musty lecture rooms has experienced an emancipation of his "physical amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves of the great open spaces of the Westmorly swimming pool, and increase the amount...
...this year War Minister Leon Trotzky had built up the "Red Army" sufficiently to harass and wear down the "White Armies" to vanishing white hopes. Denikin was driven from Ekaterinodar and fled to Constantinople. Baron Wrangel retreated to Sevastopol, lost it, and likewise fled-to turn up recently in Belgium, still "White" (TIME, Dec. 27). The "Red Terror," a series of extraordinary measures resorted to in time of stress, crystallized into the still active Soviet secret police...
Subsequent examination developed that a pugilist is no stronger than his bridgework. Sharkey's right fist had torn loose one of McTigue's substitute molars. This tooth, driven through the upper gum, had met a large artery; caused a hemorrhage; lost the battle for its owner...