Word: drives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drive. Perle Mesta began her final assault on Washington in 1941. She moved into the exclusive Sulgrave Club, got some professional advice on press relations, and started giving parties. She shrewdly gave a yearly alcoholic "tea" for the women's press corps. Either with rare good luck or uncanny generalship, she ingratiated herself early with Harry Truman. She feted him as a Senator, gave the first party in his honor-a $5,000 blowout-when he became Vice President. She gave a huge "coming-out" party for Margaret Truman in 1946. When Margaret sang in Oklahoma City, Perle brought...
Where are we getting? "The way I like to put it," Van Wagoner put it, "is we've got this automobile called democracy-see?-a car called democracy. We've put it here for these people to drive, and we've taught them how to drive, see? But their being able to drive doesn't mean there won't be accidents, does...
...Social Democrat, 64, grizzled, tough and thirsting for revenge. "Would I fight!" he exclaimed. "Give me the chance! All three million of us are waiting for the war-that is the only way we can get back our land. Give us the arms-and we will drive the Russians from Berlin before they can even lace their boots!" Loud though it rings, the voice of Jilka is not yet speaking for Germany, nor even for that nationalism which is resurgent. That could happen if the agony of today's intellectual confusion lasts many years more...
...college be able to build a new "Old Kenyon"? President Gordon Keith Chalmers thought so. As bandaged students went back to class, alumni and friends across the U.S. were writing and wiring offers to help. At week's end, Kenyon trustees voted to conduct a million-dollar drive to duplicate the old building, using the old stones, with a modern, fireproof interior...
Brown University fraternity men stamped out a sudden drive to outlaw alochol from the Providence campus at a mass meeting Wednesday night which had been called by "independent" students to end discriminatory fraternity membership clauses...