Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police are slavish doers of the corporate will. Nevertheless, the film, within the propagandistic limits it sets, is a work of vigorous art. It is crowded with grindingly effective scenes, through which the passion of social anger hisses in a hot wind; and truth and lies are driven before it like sand...
...Secretary of the Army's office to the commanding general at Fort Dix that Private Dave Schine was to get night and weekend passes during his eight weeks of basic training. The word was passed down the line that Schine was a VIP, and every weekend a chauffeur-driven Cadillac would whisk him away from his comrades-in-arms (who get a weekend pass about four times in the eight weeks). Only once did Schine pull K.P. duty. One afternoon his squad leader hastily called a group of G.I.'s to clean stoves. After the detail was formed...
...dive and smashed through the sound barrier. After a trial-landing maneuver, the prince circled, neatly brought the Sabre Jet in all by himself. Later, six miles out in the Pacific off Los Angeles, the prince, with no inkling that he was pushing his luck, was flying a propeller-driven Navy trainer when its engine quit. His Air Force pilot glided the plane back to International Airport, made a dead-stick landing. "We just had a lot of fun," said Bernhard. "There was no danger of swimming...
...many-decibel shrieking is hard on humans too, but it need not last for long. Starlings driven from their roosts do not return when the noise stops; they stay away from the haunted roosts for the rest of the season...
R.H.I.P. In Toledo, suspended for leaving the scene of an accident. Police Inspector Charles W. Roth explained that he had driven off because he would have felt "like a jackass" waiting for an ordinary patrolman to investigate...