Word: droving
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...with the Americans. They trained us." Libyans' friendliness to Americans is even clearer hundreds of miles down the coast at the Essider Marine Terminal, from which oil is shipped by the government-owned Waha Oil Co. The company took over the operation from U.S. companies in 1986, when sanctions drove out the Oasis Group, a combination of Amerada Hess, Marathon Oil and Conoco. But a handful of American citizens are still at work in the facility and have been throughout the decades of sanctions, in violation of U.S. laws. "Basically, we never left," says Conrad B. Cazalas, 58, an electrician...
...Goffredo drove the lane and missed a runner long, but Stehle tipped the ball and it banked in with just 0.2 left in regulation...
...quality game for Jason in all respects,” Sullivan said. “That might be one of Jason’s best games at Harvard. He rebounded the ball. He scored. He drove to the basket...
...frame. His family history worked against him too. Both his parents have high blood pressure, and his father and brother are diabetic. And he didn't do himself any favors by allowing seven years to elapse since his last checkup. When his persistent fatigue finally drove him to a doctor, he learned the wages of so much neglect. His blood pressure was topping out at a monitor-popping 166/120, and he was in the early stages of heart failure...
...throughout the film, the audience is held curiously aloof from Hughes as a person. No matter how much of his life we observe, there is little to nothing to make viewers genuinely care about him or get an idea of what really drove him. It doesn’t even give us the electrifying sense of urgency that generally drives Scorsese’s films—even his flawed yet intriguing Gangs of New York. Scorsese never seems invested in The Aviator and, as a result, though entertaining at times, the film never becomes anything more substantial than...