Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chrysler Corp. President Lester Colbert: automobiles on superhighways may be driven by electronic "automatic pilots," with human guidance required only at exits and entrances...
Visiting Manila in 1946, General Dwight Eisenhower (then Chief of Staff of the Army) said the destruction wrought there by the Japanese before they were driven out was matched by only one other city he had seen: Warsaw. Originally, the Philippines demanded $8 billion in reparations, a figure which included $1,000 for each of the 91,180 Filipinos who died at the hands of the Japanese. Since then, some of the legacy of hatred has diminished, and so have Philippine demands. Four months ago, Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay got down to cases by asking Japanese Premier Ichiro Hatoyama...
...Savings and Loan Association, he accepted a new half dollar with the likeness of George Washington Carver on it, then whipped-around to the United Mutual Life Insurance Co. to deliver a little talk to the staff on the value of life insurance and a stable dollar. Nixon was driven to the Harlem branch of the Y.M.C.A., where he inspected the men's and women's lounges, watched a swimming lesson in the pool. After poking his head into the gymnasium to see two boys dribbling basketballs, he returned by car to the Hotel Theresa and, not noticeably...
...bypass engine is an intermediate type that stands midway between the turbojet and the turboprop. It has two compressors, each driven by its own turbine through its own shaft (see diagram). Some modern turbojets have this arrangement too, but all the air that is compressed passes through the combustion chambers to form the high-speed jet. In the bypass engine, part of the air from the forward compressor flows around the combustion chambers (incidentally cooling trie engine's skin) and mixes with the speeding gas in the tailpipe. It cools the stream and slows it, but adds greatly...
Then came the bombs. The Maroc-Presse was a special target; the managing editor was threatened, the executive editor driven from Morocco by bombings and machine-gun attempts on himself and his family. The counterterrorists operated with the obvious sympathy of diehard colon organizations such as the Présence Française. When one suspected killer eluded police questioning, it was discovered later that he had driven off in a red sports car belonging to a prominent physician and Présence Française leader and had holed up for several weeks at the physician's estate...