Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BENSON: . . . Most interesting ... No one questions that agriculture is in a serious squeeze between rising prices for things farmers buy and declining prices for products they sell . . . [But] I want to dispel once and for all any impression . . . that thousands of farmers in Iowa and elsewhere are being driven off their farms . . . The facts are that farm foreclosures are at or near their record low . . . Any attempt, I feel, to persuade the American farmer that the small farmer is dying in Iowa or anywhere else is a perversion of the truth. And I think it's demagoguery...
...typical day, the commanding general is driven up in his black Buick at exactly 9 a.m.; he glances at the flags fluttering from 15 tall flagpoles at the entrance, and trots briskly up the steps. He flashes a wide, toothy grin of greeting at the military policeman on duty, to the civilian woman who runs the magazine stand, to anyone he encounters in the corridor on his way to his office. His working day had begun almost an hour earlier, when his French aide reported to his breakfast table in his nearby official residence to brief...
...foul mattress and staring at the ceiling. He watches the bugs march in stately procession round his garret-but not very often, because the room is so ice-cold that the bugs feel cozier in the woodwork. At this point of the story, Novelist Orwell has more than driven home his point: "To abjure money is to abjure life." Man's first duty is to get himself "bound up in the bundle of life," to fit himself for the struggles of "being married, begetting, working, dying." And so, at the eleventh hour, Orwell yanks Gordon out of his sanctimonious...
...atrocity. Such conduct is what - in the absence of Shakespearean remorse or classical retribution - psychologically weights the play's later episodes. Tamburlaine is one who, having achieved enormous power, but must almost maniacally assert it: his is no self-preserving ruthlessness or vengeful rancor, but an ego-driven, gratuitous cruelty...
...says Dr. Walter Modell of Cornell in The Relief of Symptoms (W. B. Saunders Co.). The book's point: doctors must try not only to find a long-range cure but to give immediate relief. Otherwise, patients may be driven to the charlatan. Author Modell lists symptoms that should be treated at once, whether or not the basic trouble can be cured. Samples...