Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close to an abortive end. Characteristically, the Communists had used the talking time to increase their military pressure in IndoChina and had refused to move a fraction of an inch toward a reasonable basis for negotiation with the West. Such fresh evidence of unrelenting Communist purpose should have driven the Western nations closer together, but it had no such effect...
...Mans, France, a sturdy Italian Ferrari sports car, driven by Argentina's Jose Froilan Gonzalez and France's Maurice Trintignant, clocked an impressive 2,523.4 miles in the grinding, 24-hour Le Mans Grand Prix Endurance Race to finish a slim 2.4 miles ahead of last year's winners, Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton in their English Jaguar. In third place, with a total of 2,355 miles: an American Cunningham Special driven by Sherwood Johnston and William Spear. In fifth: Briggs Cunningham himself in another Cunningham Special...
...Scales. Wishing neither to underestimate the enemy nor to misunderstand him, newspapers printed only the truth they could be sure of about him. and were driven to guessing the dimensions of the bear by the length of his claw, and his health by the color of his coat. Yet putting together what is known indicates that the new Russian regime may keep its peoples from rising, but cannot satisfy their needs (see below); and the new China is having such internal upheaval that its leaders are hard put to combat...
...morning of Nov. 5, 1952, the Republican politicians came down out of the hills and gazed hungrily about them in the Valley of Plenty from which Ike Eisenhower had just driven the Democrats. After 20 years, the federal patronage belonged to the G.O.P. once again. Federal payrolls were larger than any Republican had ever presided over-2,500,000 people holding down civilian jobs in Washington, across the land, and all around the world. Instantly, district, county and state bosses turned expectantly toward those traditional dispensers of federal patronage, the national committeemen, the Congressmen and the Senators...
...week's end 422 of a promised 858 were safe in Hanoi. Then came Genevieve de Galard. "I am quite well," she told the crowd at the airfield, "but I have nothing to say, and I have made up my mind about that." Then, still smiling, she was driven off into Hanoi for a medical check, a good meal and a quiet night's sleep...