Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trout & Charity. These successes conceal Mattei's bleak record in oil development. He has driven private oil-producing firms out of Italy, and while neglecting oil exploration in the promising Po Valley, he has scattered his capital around the Middle East, acquiring concessions in Iran, Egypt, Morocco and Somaliland, with little to show for it. He benefits from laws left over from fascism, which give his state organizations monopolistic power...
...uncompromising man, Speedster Campbell was not content, declared he would try for 300 m.p.h. again in 1960. Still more uncompromisingly, he has announced his intention to make 400 m.p.h. on land, is now building a new jet-driven car (also to be named Bluebird) to try for the land mark next year at Utah's Bonneville salt flats. Said he: "I have decided to retire after I have got the double...
...patch of tall grass she can find. By the time Tony gets back to the farmhouse, two of Debbie's grade-schoolboy brothers have helpfully removed the engine from his car-they are giving him, they announce, a free "ring job." At about this point, poor Tony is driven to drink (something called a Laughing Hyena: one part vermouth, two parts gin, three parts whisky). After which he of course starts to laugh like a hyena, blacks out, wakes up the next morning in Debbie's bed. "You were wonderful," she sighs adoringly. "You better get some more...
...train if it is too far to drive. But driving she loves, in a car with special controls, like those for handicapped veterans. "It's the only thing I'm proud of," she says. And since Dr. Carlsen got her license in 1954, she has safely driven 42,000 miles...
Lleras also rebuilt his nation's international fiscal rating, driven into shabby disrepute by Spendthrift Rojas. He choked off unneeded imports so decisively that Colombia was one of five Latin American nations to show a 1958 favorable balance of trade in spite of tumbling prices of coffee, source of more than 80% of Colombia's export income. Lleras cut the $500 million commercial debt left by Rojas to $150 million. He also held down government spending and tightened credit. Cost of living, which jumped 23% in 1957, climbed only...