Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crashed into the borrowed Pontiac driven by Paul L. Kelley of Belmont, which had stopped short. It also hit a parked Pontiac occupied by Mrs. Marguerite LaRaia, 58, and her daughter, Marguerite II, 26, who both escaped serious injury. Two other parked cars, a Pontiac and a Ford, also were entangled as the bus careened straight for the University Luncheonette...
Oistrakh himself is beyond analyzing his own appeal. Unlike many great musicians, he does not give the dramatic impression of being possessed by his art or driven by passion; he has the unostentatious, businesslike dedication of a man who simply was not born to do anything else. Once when asked what he did when he wanted to forget music. David Oistrakh replied, a little shocked: "But I don't want to forget music...
...tourist who decides for Moscow next year will risk his life, not in the dark cells of the Lubianka prison below Dzerzhinsky Square, but in the wildly undisciplined traffic above. Moscow's streets are full of big, fast automobiles, all driven apparently by Sturmovik pilots intent on dive-bombing pedestrians. Or, as a recent visitor put it: "Dodging in and out of lanes, with nary a signal and with wild shouts of profanity at other cars, the Russian driver seems to be recapturing the elation felt by the Cossack of old when he swooped down from the steppes...
...turn away. Gorky Street may be as crowded as Fifth Avenue at lunchtime, but there is little or no window shopping, and there are always drunks .feeling their way along the walls. The best people do not walk and the visitor may be surprised by the number of chauffeur-driven limousines bearing small scrubbed boys...
...Canadian lamprey fighters have had some success with electrically charged fences built across the lampreys' favorite streams. Adult lampreys are killed or driven back by the electricity before they can spawn, but good fish are affected, too, and the fences are expensive to build and operate. Dr. Moffett felt it would be much better to find some chemical that would kill the infant lampreys in their burrows. The poison would have to spare the desirable fish that use the same streams, and no such chemical was known. So Moffett sent out a call for help, asking universities and industrial...