Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperate hope. There he hired a car. He called Watkins at his home in Princeton, asked him to have dinner with him at the Princeton Inn. The shadows lay long on the grass, and the dining room was beginning to fill when Watkins drove up and parked in the drive outside the inn. Brooks walked over...
...never been so insulted in my life," steamed Glenn Cunningham, 39, barrel-chested mile king of the '305. The outrage: while he was giving his oratorical all to the "Temperance Tornado" drive across Kansas, on a Great Bend lecture platform, someone offered him a foaming glass of beer...
...Pennsylvania Turnpike, motorists can drive 160 miles without shifting gears. From 15 miles east of Pittsburgh to the outskirts of Harrisburg, the four-lane super-highway has no intersections, grade crossings, pedestrians, stoplights, or fixed speed limit (except in its 6.7 miles of tunnels). Going through instead of over the rugged Alleghenies, it has no miles of straightaway, no grade steeper than 3%, no curve requiring a reduction in speed...
...hero of Ape and Essence, as pallid as most of Huxley's heroes, is Dr. Alfred Poole, a mother-dominated scientist with a vast intellect and a recessive sex drive. On an expedition from New Zealand (one of the few spots, in the 22nd Century, that has escaped the atomic destruction of the Third World War), Dr. Poole discovers the remnants of a decayed civilization on the west coast of North America. In once proud and loud California there vegetates a sallow, stupefied tribe of helots whose technology is not much superior to that of the pre-Columbian Indians...
...judge" had planned the accident himself, and used his own car to stage it. He had arranged for someone to drive, and for someone else to get hit. He had even sent out an ambulance to pick up the victim. His Honor, Professor Charles W. Joiner of the University of Michigan's law school, thought he had found a perfect way to get a practical lesson into his students' mock courtroom trials...