Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tanks and MIGs to Egypt's volatile Gamal Abdel Nasser, saw them smashed in the Suez crisis. Now there was Syria. "There," said Dulles, "Soviet-bloc arms were exultantly received and political power has increasingly been taken over by those who depend upon Moscow. True patriots have been driven from positions of power by arrests or intimidation. One consequence of this is that Turkey now faces military danger from the major buildup of Soviet arms in Syria on its southern border, a buildup concerted with Soviet military power on Turkey's northern border...
...Three days later Pibul and a skeleton personal staff disembarked some 200 miles away at the Cambodian seaside resort of Kep. On hand to meet him was a covey of Cambodian officials to tell him he was welcome if he agreed to indulge in no politicking. Pibul assented, was driven off to the capital of Pnompenh in a cream-and-green Buick thoughtfully provided by his hosts...
...same group of teenagers continually caused minor trouble throughout the day. Cars driven by Negroes were stoned, and shouts of "There's a damned nigger" and stronger epithets brought only occasional remonstrances from soldiers...
Back at Work. In Greensboro, N.C., while the doctors fretted back in Decatur, Margaret met Connecticut Dog Trainer Ted Young Jr., who, for such a good customer, had obligingly responded to a long-distance call and had driven some 630 miles south to pick up her dogs for safekeeping. She kept the most valuable cocker. Rise and Shine; surprisingly, she included Capital Gains among those sent to Connecticut. Bidding the servants farewell, abandoning the furniture vans, Margaret and Sheila Joy drove north to Baltimore, then west to Oklahoma. The FBI put out a nationwide alarm...
From his years as a stock-market speculator, Baruch feels that he gleaned something more valuable than gold, a kind of golden mean of inspired common sense: "Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to try to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself, 'Two and two still make four, and no one has ever invented a way of getting something for nothing.' When the outlook is steeped in pessimism I remind myself, 'Two and two still make four, and you can't keep mankind down for long...