Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting the best of medical care and should suffer no "permanent aftereffects." Furthermore, the U.S. would do "everything possible to prevent any recurrence of possible danger," would instruct the Marshallese in anti-radioactivity safety measures, and see to it that no island citizen suffered financial loss because radioactivity had driven him off his land...
...nurse, Miss de Galard.* She looked as unafraid as ever. I also saw the Viets taking General de Castries. He was wearing his mudstained battledress and his red overseas cap. He looked detached and impassive. He climbed into a jeep between two heavily armed Viet soldiers, and was driven away...
...Taruc left San Pablo, the villagers wept. They are fanatically loyal to him, said Colonel Cabal. Taruc was driven to Camp Murphy, and the government took over. He was the biggest prize taken in the eight-year-old war against the Huk guerrillas. Looking relaxed and confident, Taruc announced that he had"come down" because of"a deep conviction of the sincerity of the President . . . to work out a program which will give peace and prosperity." Magsaysay's terms, he said,"laid the basis of negotiations," and he was now "joining the forces of law and order...
...police barriers. When De Gaulle's open black car arrived, a band struck up the Marseillaise. On his uniform the tall, greying man wore only one decoration, the Cross of Lorraine. He saluted the flag, stood bowed for a minute before the eternal flame. Then he was driven away...
...children spread around the world. A typical entry: "Wellington, New Zealand. Sept. 13: arose 5:30, breakfast 6 a.m. Departed for the airport 6:30 a.m.. where we took a chartered four-motored plane ... to the Wai-taki Project . . . We were met by cars and driven to the Waitaki hydroelectric project, [where] the ladies were served coffee and cakes. Very sumptuous, but I'm afraid will not whet our appetites for the big luncheon at the mess hall...