Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morrison was removing his tire chains by the side of Route 110 when a car driven by Richard Deignault of Burlington, Vermont skidded on the slippery road behind him and threw him 100 feet. Neither Deignault nor Mrs. Morrison, who was sitting in the parked car, were injured...
...majority vote, members of the French Assembly last week declared France an international incompetent. They scorned the most elaborate reassurances ever offered any nation. They rejected controls on their old enemy painstakingly contrived at their own insistence by their best friends. Driven largely by personal malice and domestic intrigues, they gravely damaged any hope of a united Europe, flung back the proffered hand of friendship from their ancient foe, and jeopardized their own safety. Their decision-if it stood-left France in the position of a ward, for other nations to protect and to defend. And even if the Assembly...
...Lifetime Late. Driven to distraction, Alice did her best to dispel her husband's doubts, but the only man who might have provided positive evidence to support her case was gone. Less than six months after the publication of his book, Raymond Radiguet died. Alice found evidence that the young author had stolen a diary in which she had described many an intimate scene with her husband, and used it to give his book verisimilitude. Gaston was not convinced. Time and again, he would cite a passage from Devil in the Flesh and confront his wife with...
After confessing, MacKenzie was permitted to take daily exercise with the three captured U.S. fliers. Although MacKenzie refused to say whether the U.S. prisoners had also been driven to sign confessions, he clearly implied that they had. Despite MacKenzie's release, the outlook for his former U.S. comrades is still bleak. The Chinese told them that they would be held until U.S. policy toward Red China is "right," MacKenzie said. "The Chinese are not too pleased about Formosa and not too pleased about...
...must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day . . . How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him. I have spoken too long for a writer. A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. Again. I thank...