Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suppose the slanted coverage of the press does not push or national attitude off the springboard to war; suppose this organized drive to discount liberals does not destroy civil liberties. What then is there to worry about? Why not let the Boston Heralds and the Luces blow their horns until their breath is all gone...
...animal act is hampered by the only human member of its cast, a shricking and billous individual who will undoubted drive his canine assistants to the A.S.P.C.A.. The chorus line is a fine group of young ladies when at ease, but when in motion these girls seem to be giving a mass imitation of the mating dance of the Kodiak bear...
...bits of the town from Central Park to the Battery, making most of his sketches on Sundays and working from half-concealed positions behind garbage cans and in doorways so as not to attract attention. "Sometimes a crowd would gather anyway," Kingman says, "and I'd have to drive them away by singing Chinese songs-very hard on the ears...
...gets much of its surface glitter and look of reality from exciting camera work and lively invention. For its emotional drive, it relies almost entirely on the quiet, slowly accumulating honesty of Ryan's performance...
...drive to force tighter unification of the armed services got under way yesterday among Senators looking for some way to cut the house-approved $16,000,000,000 military appropriation. Senator Harry Byrd (D-Va.) told a reporter he hopes to see a new unification bill shoved through the Senate before that body is called to pass on military appropriations...