Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court. Last week Jimmy Hoffa got the shock of his busy life: three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals not only upheld the bulk of Judge Letts's order, but gave it teeth that seemed likely to take a big bite out of Hoffa in his ruthless drive for power...
...before the race. "I was scared," he admits. "I had to run against these greats. I just didn't think I was the material to be in the same category with those guys, but I remembered what the coach told me: 'Keep your jaw loose, relax, and drive when you see that tape...
...pianist. When her husband was head of a citizens' committee to aid St. Paul's Como Park Zoo, she sold the idea of painting the cages in colors that contrasted with the animals' coats. When a local weekly refused to support a hospital fund-raising drive with the enthusiasm she expected, she bought it and became publisher. She came out with strong editorials against Senator Joseph McCarthy, won a campaign to keep taverns open on Sunday...
Rodgers, filling in for the injured Mouse Kasarjian, rattled out three line-drive singles, and drove in three runners. Only a sophomore, this man gives promise of developing into a very fine hitter in the baseball wars that lie ahead...
...propositions. And it was Luther who proclaimed "the priesthood of all believers," declaring that each man had the right of genuine personal judgment before God on the most intimate matters relating to his soul. Protestant Christianity seems to have had built into it, from the first, a remorseless central drive toward absolute sincerity in the acceptance of liberal truth--a condition that has evidently proved self-undermining so far as the faith of a large number of Harvard undergraduates is concerned. And the factor that stands in second place as cause of the atheist heresy is similarly an objection against...