Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only 802 votes, but Big Nick was marked well for the future by his good Republican connections in the state. Long, lanky (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ibs.) and handsome, he sported a friendly, lopsided smile, drove himself hard. Last week it was clear that Big Nick, 57, had driven himself too hard; the people of Denver, smarting under Big Nick's whiplashing insistence on a new city payroll tax, lashed back-and-well, he could always go back to real estate...
...Marley's ghost wore a ten-gallon hat, toted a burden of land grants, mortgages and gold nuggets, and the Ghost of Christmas Past was a young cowpuncher who greeted Scrooge: "Howdy, pardner. I reckon you've been expecting me." For an idea that might have driven some viewers to Earp, it all went down quite smoothly, suggesting the not altogether happy possibility that A Christmas Carol may endure on TV till the cows come home. It also stirred some speculation about what the dickens the TV adapters may do next with the Yule classic. The time...
...Commenting on the shortage of college teachers, President Charles Cole of Amherst sounded one happy note: "Our students are usually hand-fed intellectually and hand-driven over the hurdles of a college course. Our system works fairly well, but it may have tended to reduce the originality and ingenuity of our students. With too few teachers, we're going to have to turn the students loose-put them on their own-leave them to find their way through difficulties. I think it will be a good thing...
...MILLION ORDER from Navy will help Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. out of cutback woes. The Long Island company is getting a $46 million contract to produce propeller-driven, all-weather, radar-equipped WF-2 Tracer early-warning planes and a $40 million production contract for transonic, needle-nosed F9F-8T jet fighter-trainers...
Actually, the moose like to live where men and machines do, and frequently nuzzle up to Alaskan oil derricks to sidewalk-superintend the drilling. Instead of being driven out of the civilized areas, they are rapidly multiplying. Their greatest enemy is not the oilmen, but the Alaska Railroad-a creature of the conservationist Interior Department-which last winter killed 366 moose on the tracks. For those moose who prefer desolation to civilization, there are vast areas of ideal scrub brush and timberland outside Kenai untouched by man or derrick. In fact, only 10% of Alaska's moose live...