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Word: drivingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...qualify a man must have worked as a solicitor on the Combined Charities drive, which collected money for the AFS this year, and be unable to afford a trip on his own book. A special Council committee will make the choice later this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Free Trip to Europe | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

...small talk. Officers of his staff once maneuvered him into a car with a colonel who was his runner-up for the title of the army's most taciturn officer, and asked the chauffeur to keep track of the conversation. Not a word passed between them on the drive from Rio's Catete Palace to Santos Dumont airport. As the car drove through the airport gate, the colonel muttered: "Chegamos" (We have arrived). Grunted Dutra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Visit from a Friend | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Voiceman Herrick is confident that superior U.S. and British technology can lick the Soviet jammers. In this sort of warfare the offensive generally has the advantage. It is almost impossible to drive all unauthorized words out of a nation's air. During World War II, the Nazis used massive jamming equipment and also made it a capital crime to listen to Allied broadcasts. But the news still got through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Air-Wave Battle | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

House Republican leaders yesterday made the Administration's multi-billion dollar Housing program the target for a new economy drive. Joseph Martin, of Massachusetts, called a mass meeting of all GOP House member for today, to shape party policy on the bill. The bill goes before the House Rules Committee today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Defense Secretary Forrestal Kills Self in Leap | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...fifth inning Goldie tripled to deep left center to drive in the next two Bellboy runs. Then in the last frame he squeezed Frank Lionette in from third for the final tally...

Author: By E. JOUR Otameal, | Title: Lowell Nine Wins Pennant By Conquering Adams, 4-1 | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

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