Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reconciliation is wasting its time circulating petitions for food which is not needed by the Communists. I will suggest that as an alternative, they circulate the same petitions demanding that the surplus foods be circulated to South Viet Nam, where more than 350,000 homeless and hungry refugees, driven from their homes by the well fed Reds, are in dire need of substinence. Herbert A. Philbrick New York Herald Tribune
...still in it. Mike swallowed and screamed. His mother rushed him to a doctor, who gave him mineral oil and kept him on soothing milk and ice cream for three weeks. But one morning Mike could no longer swallow: scar tissue had closed his esophagus (gullet). He was driven 124 miles through a snowstorm to Denver's Colorado General Hospital. There, Mike was fed intravenously and through a tiny plastic tube forced through his esophagus, to build him up for surgery...
...saint or fool, would observe the for mal demands of chivalry and obey each of his lady's whims (such as entering a joust in which his only shield is a mirror that must not be damaged). But Haguenier fulfills all his "trials" until he is driven to drink and finally into a monastery...
...direct a semantic flanking movement around Article 9. Japan's "ground self-defense force" now counts about 115,000 men; its "coastal self-defense force" numbers 210 ships (about 70 on lease from the U.S.); its "self-defense air force" has 3,000 men, 20 propeller-driven aircraft and the promise of U.S. jets to come...
...Each year has taken away something of the warmth, gaiety and outgoing charm . . . The brown eyes that were ever ready to sparkle at some witty sally often hold an expression now of hard defiance or weary frustration. His face is that of a tired man who seems to be driven by some internal force which never relents, never lets go. His smile today is the smile of a self-possessed man, a polite Prime Minister, fully aware of his power, defying any criticism...