Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swarming tenements along Harlem's East 108th Street have changed little since Gambler Frank Costello was a boy. The towers of the Triborough Bridge now float in the sky just beyond their chimneys, and a snare-drum roll of traffic drifts up from the modern East River Drive. Negroes and Puerto Ricans choke the slums to west and north. But the old neighborhood is still Italian. Its sidewalk garbage cans (each with its cover chained to prevent theft), its great, voracious rats, its smells, its endless noise, are the same...
...Foremost in his makeup is vitality, drive, and aggressiveness," said Dr. Slight. "But he is expected to shut down these drives and be a man of diplomacy. The tycoon has not much place nowadays. The executive must be a compromiser. Therefore, a great deal of his innate drive cannot be expressed outwardly...
...executive, who is primarily a rugged individualist, must crush his ego for group decisions "in order to be one of the boys." Said Dr. Slight: "Thus the aggressive vitality drive that makes the executive ambitious is thwarted, and it must go somewhere, so it goes inside, producing diarrhea, headaches, blurring of vision ringing in the ears," and ultimately ulcers,* high blood pressure, or both...
Harvard's Combined Charities Drive will spurn the large national charities this year, and concentrate instead on student-aid organizations, publicity chairman Marvin S. Eiger '51 announced yesterday...
...drive will be conducted Monday through Friday of next week...