Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boulukos and Tangeman tried to put out the blaze with fire extinguishers but were driven back by the smoke. Firemen wearing gasmasks subdued the flames with water when they arrived about five minutes later. A window was knocked out, and flamings sofas, chairs and tables were thrown into the courtyard below...
...posed by Sputnik is immense, immediate and sobering. But in the larger range of history, the graver threat is that the Soviet Union has shown itself capable of briefly surpassing the West at its strongest point-the ability of a free society to outthink and outdo Communism's driven men. This was a challenge to the very basis of the West's civilization itself, and its hope of organizing a peaceful world on the principles it held to be self-evident...
...same track as the 5:18, just as crowded and already behind schedule, the steam-driven 4:56 from Cannon Street was headed out for Ramsgate and the channel coast. Overhead, on the viaduct that crosses the main lines on the southeastern edge of London, an electric local was inching forward. At precisely 6:20, in a moment of ghostly horror, the blanket of fog was lit by a blinding blue flash. St. John's grimy brick houses rocked to a crash that sounded, said one resident, "like the explosion of a ton of bombs." Plunging ahead...
...Times, he went on to combine Utica's Herald-Dispatch and Observer, Elmira's Telegram and Advertiser, Ithaca's News and Journal. He fought Hearst in Rochester (where W.R.H. spent $8,000,000 in a hopeless stab at putting F.E.G. out of business), and was himself driven to the ropes in Brooklyn, where he bought the old Eagle in 1929 and shucked it at a loss of $2,000,000 three years later. He never founded a paper, but he bought with an auditor's sure eye; in all, Publisher Gannett acquired 30 papers (plus...
...pilots of the twin-jet Voodoos dropped down only to 35,000 ft. for four or five refuelings at a whizzing 600 m.p.h., giving them a zooming advantage over pre-135 record seekers, who had to descend to 18,000 ft. and 250 m.p.h. to be refueled by prop-driven KC-97 tankers...