Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late. "Polish sloppiness," growled an outraged German Communist. No less sourly, many a citizen of Warsaw noted that the black-red-and-gold flags scattered throughout Warsaw in Ulbricht's honor were the first German flags to fly over the city since Hitler's occupation troops were driven...
...exile demurred, Churchill bluntly told the House of Commons that henceforth Poland "must honestly follow a policy friendly to Russia." When protests were raised over Polish plans to expel the entire German population of the "recovered territories"-between 4,800,000 and 5,800,000 Germans were ultimately driven out of the area, mostly to West Germany-Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee declared that the Germans "are not entitled to appeal on the basis of moral laws that they have disregarded...
Broken Field. In Toledo, Taxi Driver Elmer Bittow was convicted of drunken driving after sheepishly admitting that he had driven his cab 26 miles south down the northbound lane of the Detroit-Toledo Expressway...
Pour Out. Already integrated Soviet-bloc plans have driven East Germany ahead of Red China and Czechoslovakia as Russia's No. 1 trading partner, turning Soviet raw materials into every kind of machine from dynamos for Soviet dams to electronic components for Sputniks. The Russians are pouring millions of marks into making Rostock a major seaport, a substitute for East Germany's natural outlet of Hamburg. Under the grandiose new Khrushchev expansion plans, the Russians have agreed to give East Germany the equivalent of nearly $200 million in economic aid next year, and have assigned the East Germans...
...tragic drama of Doctor Zhivago is that of an apostle of life, with a profound sense of its Christian sanctity, who is caught in the life-crushing and soul-destroying nightmare of revolution, civil war and tyranny. The poet-doctor is driven across the face of Russia, is loved by people who lose him, and greatly loves a woman named Lara whom he loses. A broken man, he finally dies of a heart attack after he steps off a Moscow streetcar...