Word: drives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, the two men were psychologists, interested in the varieties of human response to the sight of an obviously unguarded, abandoned car. Within ten minutes, their vehicle received its first visitors. The researchers' log reads, in chilling ellipsis: "Family of three drive by, stop. All leave car. Well-dressed mother with Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag stands by car on sidewalk keeping watch. Boy, about eight years old, stays by father throughout, observing and helping. Father, dressed in neat sport shirt, slacks and windbreaker, inspects car, opens trunk, rummages through; opens own car trunk full of tools, removes hacksaw...
...Trade. The hope that De Gaulle might become more cooperative on economic affairs is one reason that President Nixon seeks to improve U.S. relations with France. The Administration's anti-inflationary drive at home has helped to harden the dollar on world markets. One result is that Nixon will speak from strength in any money talks in Europe. While showing little interest in a gold price increase or other radical monetary reforms, Washington is pressing for the activation of the International Monetary Fund's "special drawing rights" as the best immediate way to expand the monetary reserves needed...
...group loyalty. Groups depend on unified experience, on the internalization of common social modes of being in their members. This internalization produces a sense of Us. Us is experienced as an organism which supersedes individual identity. Both group loyalty and shame place responsibility for motivation outside the individual. They drive man to acts which he would not conscience on his won, and they remove form him the satisfying, meaning-giving knowledge that his actions come from himself...
Cornell refused to fold and took the lead at 75-74, on George Chapman's shot with 2:17 remaining. Dover's drive regained the lead but then Gallagher, Harvard's high scorer and rebounder for the night, fouled...
...forfeited. To be sure, there is still an overwhelming section on the WASP as seen by a young Jew. ("These are the children from the coloring books come to life, the children they mean on the signs we pass in Union, New Jersey, that say CHILDREN AT PLAY and DRIVE CAREFULLY, WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN.") It is more damning than anything in Roth's last novel, a story of an unwed mother in the great Midwest called When She Was Good (1967). And there are a few bits reminiscent of Goodbye, Columbus (1959), like an incident in which a Jewish...