Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake, Tex., the Presbyterians opened a drive-in church. Said the Rev. Rodney Gibson to a 50-car congregation: "There should be no strangeness in worshiping God in this manner...
...eight leading representatives of OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation) met in Paris. The engagement was screened by a fog of long technical words and its result was inconclusive. When the meeting ended, however, the advantage lay with Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps. He had skillfully checked a drive by ECA and some continental nations to reduce currency exchange barriers between European nations...
...loving, 18-year-old younger daughter of Britain's King George VI, did the galleries, appeared circumspectly at a nightclub, danced until 2:30 a.m. at an embassy ball, and slipped through a garden gate to escape a carload of photographers determined to pursue her on a drive into the country. Frenchmen said of her: "Qu'elle est belle!" Reporters noted with approval that in nine public appearances she had worn nine different costumes. At the airport last week, when it was all over, Margaret murmured politely to her hosts: "I've had such a wonderful time...
...tuning of them more scientific, nor the field more completely dominated by one man. He was taciturn Lou Moore, 44, whose blue cars with red and white trim had come in first and second for two years running. This time one of Moore's four-cylinder, front-wheel-drive beauties won again...
...other living thing in evolution, retains the shrunken vestiges of once-vital organs which no longer serve much real purpose, and only cause trouble if they try to. Take for example, in 20th Century U.S. civilization, the father of a bride. Take specifically Mr. Stanley Banks of 24 Maple Drive, Fairview Manor, a vestigial organ in a perfect state of preservation...