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Word: drivingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...benign mood-it was just that he usually did nothing but snort: "Why do you guys keep calling me a politician? I'm a statesman. A statesman is for the people!" His news releases, however, could be obtained by going to Brownie's U-Drive and asking for Richard ("Brownie") Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: The Great Misunderstanding | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Mike had no intention of giving up. He got Brownie from the U-Drive to run his campaign against the recall and issued new pronunciamentos. "Why do the politicians want me out of office?" bawled Mike. "Could it be that they are frightened at what I will uncover? Don't let them sway you with their distortions of [my] innocent mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: The Great Misunderstanding | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...word was relayed through the drive-ins, malt shops and garages speckling the Los Angeles suburbs. "Tonight, Sepulveda and Hawthorne." By 10 p.m., 100 hopped-up jalopies and denuded, low-slung hot rods had gathered at a mile-and-a-half stretch of straight highway between suburban Torrance and Redondo Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Gangway! | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...teaching jobs. Now, grey-haired and grandmotherly, she will have to be the mistress of the ugly, boxlike presidential mansion at Bad Godesberg. Said Heuss of this German White House: "I can always draw up before the main entrance in my presidential Mercedes, leave by the kitchen, and then drive back to my furnished room in Bonn in my own little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Out by the Kitchen | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Three years ago Charles J. Gray was out of a job and nearly broke when he began to drive a taxi in a suburb of Flint, Mich. For a while he had some rough going, but now he owns the North End Cab Co., with six taxis and an office. A few weeks ago 46-year-old Cabman Gray decided it was time to do something he had been thinking about for a long time. He called up the six churches in his area (five Protestant and one Roman Catholic) and told them he would give free cab rides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Taxi to Church | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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