Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Word. The government of India would like the Jaunswaris to adopt monogamy. But teams of social workers who have gone up into the hills have been driven out by village elders. Said one elder indignantly: "They asked us indecent questions." Among the Jaunswaris themselves a reform movement, with all members taking the vow of monogamy, has been organized by a college graduate named Surat Singh. Although his movement is enthusiastically supported by the women, the menfolk are threatening to drive Surat Singh and all his followers into the plains. Now the Indian government has a new idea. Provincial Social...
...been more, not less competition. In Greater New York, often cited as a horrible example of lessened competition because the four biggest banks control 60% of all deposits, the actual result has been such intense competition for business that the interest rate on some ten-year loans has been driven down (from about 3¼% to 3%) at a time of rising interest rates. Moreover, many who talk about mergers as though they were the exclusive and sinister technique of the financial titans disregard the fact that most of the mergers have been between small banks. By joining forces, they...
Mechanization has driven the horse from the cities, big farms, and the U.S. Cavalry. But it remains a surprisingly useful asset: almost 4,000,000 horses survive on U.S. farms and ranches. Together with the 150,000 saddle horses ridden for pleasure, they stand as living monuments to America's great, well-remembered Horse...
...service number provisions of the Geneva conventions is accepted as this line of resistance. However, in the face of experience, it is recognized that the P.W. may be subjected to an extreme of coercion beyond his ability to resist. If in his battle with the interrogator he is driven from his first line of resistance, he must be trained for resistance in successive positions. And, to stand on the final line to the end-no disclosure of vital military information, and above all no disloyalty in word or deed to his country, his service or his comrades." President Eisenhower appended...
...INTO EGYPT, by Jean Bloch-Michel (215 pp.; Scrlbner; $3) is the story of Pierre, his wife and children-fugitives from an unnamed city in an unnamed war. They settled in a distant Alpine village where only lost and famished animals roamed the streets; the human inhabitants had been driven into slavery by the enemy. It was like being the last people on earth. But Pierre's family was no cheerful, God-fearing Swiss Family Robinson. They had no religion, no clear rules for living. Down below, Pierre knew, men were fighting and dying. Did he have the right...