Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin Park in the fashionable diplomatic district. From the safety of Rumania Niko kept control of the Greek Communist Party, while Roula, as head of the women's department, beamed radio appeals to the Red underground. It was a fine life. They toured satellite Europe in a limousine driven by a party chauffeur. They vacationed in the Crimea, and Roula gave birth to a boy named Joseph (after Stalin...
...recognize," said Vasey, a man whom Kenyans listen to, "that what a number of us would regard as the 'wrong type' of African might be elected. But it is better that such opinion should be out in the open where it can be seen, than driven underground where it is whispered and often unheard until fairly well consolidated." The whites, he warned, must recognize that "because an African voices a grievance, he is not necessarily disloyal...
Golden Water. A mere five centuries ago, long after the Mongols were driven out, Peking was rebuilt. Ming Emperor Yung Lo followed his astrologer's plan to make the city a geomantic portrait of No Cha, a three-headed monster with six arms. Its heads became the main gate, its intestine an open gutter and its navel a well. When Yung Lo had finished, Peking was a series of walled cities within cities, like a Chinese puzzle, box within...
...twin pontoons. If luck rode with him and the Bluebird held together, Don Campbell was on his way to get back the speed record once held by his father, the late Sir Malcolm Campbell (141.74 m.p.h.), and won in 1952 by Seattle's Stanley Sayres and his propeller-driven hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV (178.497 m.p.h...
...with a fury based on economic insecurity. In the heart of the city, rioters lynched one Moroccan, shot down two others with submachine guns, and clubbed the bodies with gun butts. Yelling "Death to Grandval," one mob, thousands strong, tried to storm the city's office buildings, was driven back only by fire hoses and tear gas. The French police made little attempt to discipline the mob. "They're only kids. They don't mean any harm," said one police official...