Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ugly necessities of the 20th century have driven most observers in the rest of the world to measure these possibilities solely by what they promise in terms of war or peace. In these terms, a State Department expert concludes that the Soviet New Course "ultimately creates power that will add to their war potential . . . They would be knuckleheads to start a war now, but in the late '50s, who can tell?" This vast upheaval over one-sixth the earth's surface might also be measured by the small easements-a pair of shoes, a full plate of food...
...they could, slaughtering or abandoning half of Russia's cattle (30 out of 70 million), half its hogs (12 out of 26 million), one-third of its sheep. In the famine that followed (1931-33), millions more peasants died of hunger; and millions of those who remained were driven into kolkhozes (collective farms), subjected to the law of Aug. 7, 1932: "Death by shooting for any theft from the sacred and inviolable property of the kolkhoz...
Working in a complex field, and living in a gadget-ridden society, Schwinger stands out in bold relief. His office, almost bare of books and papers, with only a few mementos, reminds one that no physical paraphernalia stands between him and his work. He is, perhpas, driven by the excitement of discovery. For although living in a defined, pedantic way, he pursues, in physics, and ephemeral certainty remote from the certitudes of everyday experience. "We're in a provisional state of things now," he says, glancing at a blackboard covered with symbols. "We don't know where we stand...
...catch the whole football spectacle, Photographer Strock dug up a pair of half-forgotten cameras that were popular in grandfather's time: a boxlike "panoramic camera" with a swiveling lens, and a "circuit camera" turned full circle by a small, spring-driven motor. Years ago itinerant cameramen used these wooden "buzz-boxes,'' turning out four-foot films of school graduations and political clambakes. Today Photographer Strock finds new use for the oldtime cameras by fitting them with modern color film, to capture the charging players and the roaring crowds in a single sweep...
Saturday rain, driven by gale winds, turned the Business School Field into a sloppy sea of mud, through which the Princeton Tigers waded to a 2 to 0 victory over the varsity soccer team...