Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anarchist," Dolci testified. "I am a man who desires that all his fellow humans participate in a minimum of civilized life. When winter came 13 persons committed suicide out of despair. Another murdered his brother to eat his brother's store of food. Hunger-driven men became thieves ... If I am wrong, please correct me, but I believe that for men to stay un-working with folded arms for six months in the year is a crime against society and against its foundation unit, the family. The Italian constitution states that men have a duty and a right...
...first big break came in midafternoon. Driven too hard in an effort to push the leader, Moss's Aston Martin quit, its gearbox a wreck. The race settled down to a duel between Hawthorn and Fangio. But after seven hours, Hawthorn's Jag began to lag. Desperately its mechs labored in the pits, but they took too long. Fangio got the lead for keeps, and during the final five hours gave a demonstration of an old master at work...
With an average speed of 84.066 m.p.h., it had covered 194 laps and a record 1,000.08 miles. Second: Fangio's teammates, Luigi Musso and Harry Schell, in another Ferrari. Third: a D-Jag driven by Indianapolis' Jack Ensley and Indianapolis 500-mile Champion Bob Sweikert. Fitch's Corvette, only U.S.-made car in the first ten, came in ninth...
...heaviest and costliest car, driven by the youngest driver, scored an upset victory in the 1956 Mobilgas Economy Run last week. At the end of the four-day, 1,468-mile course from Los Angeles to Colorado Springs, the trophy for the best gas mileage, won by lightweight Studebakers the last two years, went to a 4,580-lb., Chrysler Imperial Southampton (list: $5,618), piloted by 26-year-old Mel Alsbury Jr., of Hollywood...
...acting, and Georgia Boyko fills the part admirably. Simultaneously repulsing and desiring the advances of young Dr. John Buchanan, Miss Boyko portrays her hysteria with a certain delicacy and restraint which make her character both distinctive and convincing. When she is severe with her mother, who has herself been driven insane by an unfulfilled sexual craving, Miss Boyko's high-pitched petulance makes the similarity of their situations apparent. Throughout, she acts, and reacts, with sensitivity and energy...