Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having driven the cab, flown the plane, worked for a paper) Stockly headed for New York determined to work either for The New Yorker magazine or TIME. He came to TIME first, was given a writing trial and hired. For the next seven years he wrote TIME'S Science section...
...enemy planes. He got his wings in World War II, but, as he says, "when the war ended, I had seen one Japanese aircraft- one they showed us back in flight-training days." In Korea, enemy aircraft seemed as far away as ever: Bordelon was assigned to a prop-driven F-4U Corsair- no match for a MIG-15-and set about the essential but dull task of attacking Communist supply lines...
...Portuguese royal family, fleeing Napoleon's army, moved to Brazil, their biggest and richest colony. After the French had been driven out, King Joāo returned to Portugal, leaving Crown Prince Pedro (Isabel's grandfather), as regent. Rising nationalism persuaded the prince to declare Brazil independent and himself its Emperor Dom Pedro...
...unhappy Eden, Cooper soon starts a-rebellion that is visually a lot more interesting than any saloon brawl in which he ever thrashed a bunch of cattle rustlers. One notably effective scene: the missionary's amazed and humble discovery that the natives will come to church without being driven by the wardens' clubs, simply because they want to pray...
Conservatism as a fact and a force never died, and it is now vigorous and growing. But as a conscious and proudly defended outlook on public affairs, as a philosophy of life and government, it was driven underground for a hundred years, laughed out of the schools, driven like an old hag in a gunnysack from the glittering and shifting fashion show of ideas...