Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back Door. Reporters, trying to reflect the drama of a tense week, were driven to recording the comings and goings of black limousines-the visible external evidence of fateful activities. Shortly after 10:30 one night early last week, an official car, preceded by a noisy motorcycle escort, shot out of the courtyard of the Hotel Matignon, official Parisian residence of France's Premiers. Instantly, the shoal of reporters who were keeping a round-the-clock watch on the final agonies of the Fourth Republic set off in hot pursuit. As they left (in chase after a decoy...
Though it was at his own suggestion that De Gaulle had driven up from his country home, 150 miles southeast of Paris, it was Pflimlin who came to the meeting as a petitioner. Only that morning the National Assembly had given Pflimlin a majority of 428 to 119 (on a vote against a Deputy who took part in the Corsican uprising - TIME, June 2). But Pflimlin had also heard the bellow of Right-Wing Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour: "I repeat to the government what the whole country tells...
...December 1944, and the Russians have driven the Germans back into Czechoslovakia. Only diehard Nazis still hope that Hitler's secret weapons will somehow turn defeat into magical victory. Czech partisans are rampant behind the German lines, settling old scores with pro-German civilians, cutting off groups of soldiers, even capturing the division commander who is trying to stem the Russian surge through the Carpathian passes...
...test flight this week, Douglas will launch a major challenger to Boeing's already-tested 707 in the jet airliner race. To sell such new airliners, U.S. aircraft manufacturers are adopting an old-fashioned marketing technique: the trade-in allowance. Boeing has agreed to take back 14 propeller-driven Stratocruisers when it delivers its 707s to British Overseas Airways Corp., has offered to give trade-in allowances on nine more 707s to Northwest Airlines. Douglas is negotiating with United Air Lines to take in some DC-7s as a down payment on 30 DC-8s; Lockheed is dickering...
...Cooper), leading citizen of "Gibbsville," a small town in Pennsylvania, "a gentleman in a world that has no use for gentlemen." Decent, limited, middleaged, he is as set in his honorable ways as any samurai in his Bushido. and step by inevitable step the story describes how he is driven to commit what might be called O'Hara-kiri -he drinks himself to death...