Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compound dominated by Communists, and brought out 300 anti-Communists." A middle-aged P.W. thanked a young lieutenant, then broke down. "One thousand days behind the wire," he sobbed, "one thousand days . . ." A band rataplanned a Sousa march, and the P.W.s, loaded into trucks, were driven off towards Seoul. Korean farmers lined the road to cheer them. The Chinese P.W.s waved their flags and chanted, "Resist Russia-Down with the Reds." Then they sang songs of what they would do to the women when they got to the Nationalist island of Taiwan (Formosa), and cried to themselves that they were...
...figure of 36 millionaires is a somewhat misleading statistic. Thousands of Britons still live in a style many a highly paid U.S. executive might envy. They maintain elegant town houses in London and comfortable country estates staffed with servants, drive Bentleys or have themselves driven in Rolls-Royces (price: up to $20,000), buy their cutaways in Savile Row ($140), dress their wives in Hartnell gowns ($550 each), bring their daughters out in sumptuous balls at the Dorchester during the London season ($3,000). Glossy magazines are stuffed with hunts in full cry, yachts in full sail, garden parties...
Thus, at last, were Madrid's gourmets driven underground by Madrid's bird lovers. For generations Madrileños have been eating fried sparrows. There was a time when open-air stands on every street corner in the city sold the tender delicacies like hot franks at Coney Island. Then the bird lovers of Madrid's S.P.C.A. stepped in, flooding the city with leaflets quoting St. Francis of Assisi, who liked his birds on the wing and not the skillet. The fried birds were driven off the street corners and into the taverns...
...territory unjustly retained by Britain" for 250 years now. Britain, reacting with lofty scorn, saw its feelings aptly expressed in a London Daily Herald headline: THE AMAZING FRANCO DARES TO WARN us. Undeterred by these headlines. 8,000 Madrid students this week stormed the British embassy and were finally driven away after a 2½-hour hassle with the police...
...onto a screen when they are placed in a photographic viewer. The sink provides water at any temperature from a single faucet. An electronic oven rises at the press of a button, bakes potatoes in five minutes or roasts a turkey in 45. Even the flour-sifter is motor-driven...