Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political Record: There were few more outspoken critics of Hitler than his brother Clemens. His brother Bernard was driven into exile for his anti-Fascist book. The Beginnings of Barbarism in Germany. Said Heinrich, on hearing his family record praised: "There is nothing extraordinary about it; the contrary would have been extraordinary." A founding member of the Christian Democratic Union in Hesse, the new Foreign Minister entered politics in 1945 because (as he told a TIME correspondent), "In those days you Americans did not seem to think there were any decent Germans except the Social Democrats. We had to show...
...down with the Pope." As a priest sang a Mass inside, a crowd gathered on the steps of the cathedral while opponents hurled stones and rotten fruit and fired a few shots. The crowd answered, "Long live Christ the King." When the faithful were at last driven from the steps, the mob stoned the win dows of the Episcopal Palace. Perón rushed to his office, ordered all outdoor religious activities suspended...
...staffers on the small (circ. 11,456) Shawnee, Okla. News-Star, there were unmistakable signs of a quiet invasion. Bootleggers and gamblers, driven from Oklahoma City 40 miles to the east, were settling in Shawnee, where local police were lax in enforcing the state's dry laws. The News-Star, Shawnee's only daily newspaper, had been as lax as the police. Then the paper got a stunning reason for changing its ways...
...drive on the big brick oval at Indianapolis. It was a rebuilt Miller, 10 to 12 m.p.h. slower than most other cars in the race, and it was something of a jinx. In it, famed Jimmy Murphy, winner of the Indianapolis in 1922, had driven to his death at Syracuse, N.Y., three years before. To Wilbur Shaw the old Miller was just another car, and the cocky, mustachioed little hell-raiser drove it home in fourth place...
Rosen's book, written with dry humor, recounts many such troubles with lurking, inanimate devils. One by one they were driven out of their hiding places, although one Viking blew up and another tore itself free during a static test. At last, after years of trying, Viking7 triumphed, rising 137 miles and exceeding the altitude record (114 miles) of the much larger and more expensive German V2. In 1954, Viking-11 established a new record (158 miles) for a single-stage rocket...