Word: drives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even to blaspheme his own Catholic Church. He protested the court-martial of the Japanese General Homma, who ordered the Bataan death march, as no trial at all but a "revengeful blood purge." Gradually he withdrew from social life. His heart had never been quite equal to his spiritual drive, nor was it equal to the exacting, wearing work of the court. His Bible was by now so thumbed and tattered he had to wrap it in a towel to keep it intact...
...Right Road for Britain took a stand against nationalization of industry. (The Laborites have also indicated that their nationalizing drive is almost spent.) On social services, however, the Tories go as far as Labor-if not a bit farther. Said the Tory pamphlet: "We regard [the social services] as mainly our own handiwork. We shall endeavor faithfully to maintain the range and scope of these services, and the rates of benefits." The Tories promised increased government spending on farm subsidies, rural housing, roads and forests, pensions to widows, spinsters and the aged, and free drugs to "private patients" who choose...
...Durand-Deacon's cross that her fingernails were regrettably stubby and she had long nursed an idea for making plastic nails for other women similarly afflicted. One day last February, Mr. Haigh suggested they drive down to a factory he had in Crawley, Sussex. Three days later Haigh reported that Mrs. Durand-Deacon had never met him and never returned to the hotel. Scotland Yard sent out a routine tracer...
...paper drive, organized by the mothers, raised enough money to buy Beauregard the first telebinocular (for eye tests) and Audiograph (for hearing tests) in any New Orleans public school. Among the first 65 children tested, Schwertz found 38 who needed glasses or other eye treatment, and several who were being handicapped by deafness...
Q.E.D. In North Little Rock, Ark., Beatrice Satterfield's husband explained to police how she happened to back his car through the side of a neighbor's house: "She wanted to prove to me that she could drive...