Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mose totally misunderstood the nature of the capitalist system and of the economic animal. A striking illustrative example came from a point due east of Shmoo Valley-San Francisco-where a man named Ott Straub recently opened a new eating place. It was a drive-in, with its own radio station which broadcast any desired tune to the customers eating below; it had a dining room, a cocktail lounge, an open-air patio, and 85 carhops...
From 1939 to 1944, Oxnam was bishop of the Boston area. There he had one notable success - persuading Cardinal O'Connell to sign a joint statement with him condemning the 1942-43 wave of anti-Semitism in Boston-and one small failure, in his drive for ever-increasing personal efficiency. The latter was his scheme for hooking a dictation machine, to his car battery, so that he could park at spare moments and dash off a few letters. After finding himself marooned a few times with a dead battery, he abandoned the experiment. But he was the first bishop...
Brooks wrote: "About the crazy thing at Princeton-although I kept telling him I had to have a definite answer to our relations problem it was still that same maybe-mañana-perhaps-or this one little piece, until he just decided to drive away-well-the lack of anything broke up my mind...
...Berlin airlift the West had found its best answer to this Russian charge. The Russians were obviously trying to drive the West out, and the West, at great expense, resisted the final division of Germany. This Germans understood, and that understanding hurt the German Communist Party down to its roots (see below...
Safety First. In Honolulu, Airport Manager William Holloway rushed out to the auto obstructing Runway 4, learned that Hamai Shizuo had chosen the field as just the place to teach his friend to drive...