Word: drove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barber's men drove their prisoner straight to the San Francisco airport. A U.S. Border Patrol plane sped him to Vancouver, where cooperative Canadian authorities locked him in jail to await a Europe-bound plane. Three days after his arrest, Heikkila landed at chilly Helsinki with $11.50 in cash, no luggage, no topcoat, found that he had suddenly become internationally famous...
...President-Russia found no supporting votes for its accusation in the eleven-nation Security Council. Arkady Sobolev was compelled to withdraw his resolution, a display of ineptness rare in recent Soviet diplomacy. ¶By putting too much overt pressure on Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Khrushchev last week drove Yugoslavia to a public challenge of Soviet primacy in Eastern Europe (see below). In the process, Khrushchev also ineptly stirred up the ticklish relations between Russia and Poland. Fortnight ago. in deference to the knowledge that the U.S.S.R. could bring Polish industry to a standstill in six weeks by cutting...
Strictly for Whispering. The most obvious objection, says the liberal Protestant weekly, is economic. Seminaries find themselves spending money on quarters for married students that might otherwise go to maintenance or faculty improvement. The expense of "such massive swaddling" drove "the distinguished and dignified president of one of our proudest and most prestigious seminaries" to plead with his married students last fall to cut down their rate of reproduction. Some seminarians sign up for married quarters while they are still single. In one important Southern seminary, an administrator queried one such foresighted young man, who admitted he was neither married...
Started by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin and D. W. Griffith, United Artists had been skidding for years, was on the verge of bankruptcy because its two surviving owners. Chaplin and Pickford. could not agree on how to run it. Krim agreed to take over, but drove a hard bargain. He and Benjamin got control of the company for nothing. If they turned a profit within three years, they were to get half the 20,000 shares outstanding at $1 a share...
...concurrently, like prison sentences. Mme. Récamier, on the other hand, was bright and lovely as a peacock and quick as a lizard at dodging through chinks. "She liked to stop everything in April," said Critic Sainte-Beuve with French delicacy-meaning that Mme. Récamier drove men half-crazy by drawing them hopelessly on with her flowery charms (even Husband Récamier was denied his wife's bed). She was 40 before she embarked on her first (and last) grand passion, the 50-year-old Vicomte de Chateaubriand. It was worth waiting...