Word: driven
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...political federation, at least for the time present, and instead faces the economic problems of the world's underdeveloped peoples. In Let's Join the Human Race he outlines a plan for a giant International development Authority, similar to this country's T.V.A. Clearly, the Cold War had driven Barr and others to Asia, where the need for food and medicine overshadowed vague plans of politized federation...
...driven by Miss Mary Baggan, a dietitian at Harkness Commons, had crashed through a plate glass window on Burr's Quincy St. side two minutes before the group arrived. Only the iron railing which surrounds the window prevented the car from rolling into the hall and demolishing, among other things, the rare fish...
Estimates were driven upward over the weekend as Kamin's lawyers procured expensive transcripts of last week's trial of author Harvey O'Connor, also under indictment for refusing to answer questions before a subcommittee headed by Senator McCarthy...
Later, the youth testified, he saw Milam come out "wearing a gun," then the truck was driven away. Afterward, he said, "I went home and got ready to go to Sunday school." Other witnesses confirmed part of his testimony...
...turn, is likely to become a pusher, widening the vicious circle. Reported Manhattan's General Sessions Judge Jonah Goldstein: 1) 99% of convicted narcotics peddlers are also users, and therefore peddling to insure their own supply; 2) 30% of all persons convicted of any crime are narcotics users, driven to crime because this is the only way they can raise the money ($15 to $100 a day) that they have to pay for the drugs...