Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...even fists and feet. The Reds seemed to have no taste for this sort of combat and retreated across the Naktong with heavy casualties, but they came back to fight again near Waegwan (called "Wigwam," "Waukeegan," or "Podunk" by G.I.s), twelve miles northwest of Taegu. Twice the G.I.s were driven from the top of Hill 303 made infamous by the war's worst atrocity (see War Crimes), but they scrambled back up. As Gay's men dug in on top of Hill 303 for the third time, one of them said: "If those maniacs come back...
...educated at Johns Hopkins, had fought a one-man war against illness in the Burma jungles. During the Japanese war, he organized a front-line medical service for U.S., British and Chinese troops, trekked out of Burma with U.S. General Joseph Stilwell, marched back again when the Japanese were driven out. During the country's fierce postwar civil strife, he continued to operate his hospital at Namkham. Last September rebel forces took Namkham. Government troops eventually drove them out. Thakin Nu's government said it suspected that the American doctor had helped some of the rebels to escape...
There were solid facts behind their fancy. Star's Pride had beaten Lusty Song, driven by Foy Funderburk, in three straight races this season. Discouraged by that kind of record, Owner Hayes had fired Trainer-Driver Funderburk ten days before the race. Driver Del Miller, a 37-year-old veteran, and thus a stripling* by harness racing tradition, was hired on short notice to handle Lusty Song. A good many fans figured that the driver and horse had hardly had time to get acquainted...
...Furies (Paramount) is a pretentious exercise in Freudian dramatics, set in the New Mexico cow country of 1870. Its main characters, driven by vengeance and greed, wear their passions as openly as their six-shooters. And they switch from hate to love, and from love to hate, as readily as they shift from a canter to a trot...
Follow Me Down, by Shelby Foote. How a God-fearing Mississippi farmer is seized by temptation and driven to murder; a taut little novel of crime & passion. (TIME, July...