Word: drove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than anything else, statehood is a matter of heart, a spirit singing. In the cities, in the countless villages that all but defy outside contact, the zest to build and to carve something fresh and distinctive beats with the same kind of pioneer's pulse that drove the trail blazers of the continental West...
...Mike was an infant, and his mother took him to Portland, Ore. when he was six months old. When he was 1 6, young Mike began spending his summers near Fairbanks working in his father's "Cat" and mines. For bought $5 a food day, for he the drove a camp, sometimes packed in 35-40 lbs. on his back across swampy terrain. Alaska's beauty and swat got him; he decided to take a permanent swat at it himself...
Next day Van piled into an open car and drove in a tickertape-strewn motorcade up Broadway behind three high school bands. At City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner produced a scroll proclaiming "Van Cliburn Day," while teen-agers and office workers milled about gawking at Van ("He's cuter than Tony Perkins...
Commodity prices have been on the way down since 1956, when Western Europe's resurgent economy started to level off. This year the U.S. recession drove demand down still farther -and pushed many an exporting nation into a financial crisis. Many of those hardest hit were also the victims of their own financial inexperience and ambition. While the money was rolling in, they spent too much on too many of the wrong things, figuring that the boom would last forever...
...National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which also bought millions of doses of the vaccine, got its vaccine at 30? to 35? per dose. But this bore no relation to costs. The foundation drove a hard bargain because it had guaranteed to buy the vaccine even before it knew the vaccine was successful, had poured $22.4 million into 17 years of research that produced the vaccine...