Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacArthur had not been fired and if he had been allowed to pursue the Korean war as he had wished to, Bunker felt that we would have driven the Reds completely out of Korea, the Communists would then not have been able to win in Indo-China, Mao Tse Sung's government would have fallen, and the Chinese Nationalists would have been able to return to their homeland...
...Robert Kerr supplied the oratorical topper: "From his ivory tower at the Augusta country club, where he has been completely insulated from the voice of the people, the President has again acted on the advice of little men who made his decision for him . . . The nails that have been driven into the farmer's hands, the cross upon which he is being crucified, may have been furnished by Benson, but the hammer that drove those nails into the farmer's hands was wielded by the hand of Eisenhower. The hand that placed the crown of thorns upon...
...available guns were being sent to Leningrad. Later, after the Red army counterattacked Kharkov, Khrushchev had called Stalin at his summer resort to ask for a change of plan. Again Stalin had got Malenkov to say no, with the result that Kharkov was lost and the overextended Red army driven back across the Don. The old dictator had also treated him contemptuously, Khrushchev complained, called him Khokhol, a derogatory Russian name for a Ukrainian. "Khokhol, dance the gopak," Stalin had ordered at a Kremlin party. The gopak is a fast, vigorous Ukrainian dance, and the 52-year-old Nikita...
...locomotives, ships and stationary power plants. But, says G.M.'s President Harlow Curtice, G.M. "is the first to put it to work in an automobile." The heart of the G.M. engine is two cylinders, each containing two opposed pistons. When fuel is exploded between the pistons they are driven apart and slammed together again. This has the effect of a bellows, forcing air out of the cylinder to turn a turbine wheel, which is geared to turn the car's rear wheels...
...Manufacturing Co. for $5,000,000 worth of long-range radars for 15 major Canadian airports from Moncton, N.B. to Vancouver. When the system is in operation in 1958, it will keep the headlong jets from 1) treading on each other's heels, 2) overrunning the slower, propeller-driven craft...