Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indictment and conviction, on charges of criminal negligence, of the departmental morons who permitted this character to drive after 24 violations is more in order...
...economy drive died with it. In passing the military bill the Senate did bravely lop about $1 billion off the House's bill (providing for a 48-group instead of the House's 58-group Air Force). A few money bills, including foreign military aid, remained for the Senate to work on and there might be some further whittling when House and Senate conferees got together to settle on final sums. But there was little chance that any important cuts would be made...
...Grammos offensive was part of the government drive, launched at Vitsi three weeks ago, to wipe out the guerrillas this fall. The Communists had fought back hard. Even after being bombed and shelled, many stuck to their pinelog pillboxes, engaged the advancing government troops hand-to-hand. At nightfall, as a weird calm settled over the battlefields, U.N. observers spotted the dimmed lights of Albanian truck convoys moving up & down from the border, carrying off the wounded and bringing in reinforcements. Outside a Greek headquarters tent sat forlorn groups of Red prisoners awaiting interrogation. One of them, a former member...
...offensive in Finland was over. The Reds' carefully timed barrage of successive strikes had so far failed to paralyze the country's economy or to intimidate Premier KarlAugust Fagerholm's tough Social Democratic government. But the fight was not over. For the second phase of their drive, the Red strategists had held back some important reserves: Finland's 55,000 metalworkers...
Like the others, Portland's Symphony Society had been able to raise only part of the money it needed: $50,000 in a drive for $140,000. The season had been called off. Unlike the others, Portland's musicians were ready to play at any price. Their solution: 1) the society would use $3,000 for expenses, 2) the musicians would split the box-office receipts, whatever they might turn...