Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to his gay, decorative painting, O'Hara's subjects are somber. They express tragedy and pain. The Harlequins, flying kites in Number 13 appear to be receiving stigmata, driven into their bodies by the kite ropes. Other figures are running away, pleading, weeping, or lost in contemplation. When O'Hara succeeds in his composition he intensifies the isolation of his subjects...
...Paris and then to Geneva to try to get help from the Western foreign ministers. He told them that his people were so wrought up over the Egyptian deal that they were seriously thinking of launching a preventive war ("I hope to God that Israel will not be driven to this") before the Egyptians could turn their superior new weapons on them. He pleaded with the Western ministers to i) guarantee his country's borders, and 2) sell it arms at least equal to those its enemies were unpacking...
...Betty Meljado, whose Protestant foster mother had sent her to a Catholic school, had also disappeared when the authorities sought to transfer her to a Jewish family. In a series of adventures like a Hitchcock movie, she had been seized, kidnaped, retaken, and kidnaped again-once in a car driven by an ex-priest, who was trying to keep the child from the Jewish family...
Princeton waited all game for them to crack, but the seven men of Harvard, driven on by their leader Bill Meigs, never folder under the Tigers' pressure. The Crimson forward wall had been pushed around all season, but on this cold, rain-swept first Saturday of November, the initial victory of the Big Three Series went to the Crimson...
...drive the citizens of the new state into the Mediterranean. Only last month Cairo Radio compared Israel to "a hopeless prisoner doomed to be hanged." The years of tension, climaxed by Egypt's recent purchase of sizeable quantities of tanks, jets, and artillery from the Soviet bloc, have driven many Israelis to corresponding extremism...