Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...same combination of anxiety and uncertainty had driven little groups of U.S. townspeople together from Maine to California, to ponder what should be done in case of atomic attack. Few of them had either Tom Dewey's budget, General Clay, or a solicitous phone call from Washington. About the best they could do was talk it over with the police and fire departments, draw up a sheaf of diagrams, pore over what they read in the newspapers, and wait uneasily until Washington was ready to tell them what...
...crews of its two lead tanks and the rest of the column piled up behind them. But Private Ray Roberts, a 19-year-old ex-bulldozer operator who had started the reconnaissance as a bazooka man, took over the controls of the lead tank (although he had never driven a tank before), led the column through heavy enemy fire to U.S. lines...
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...
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...
...some hope in the fact that the North Koreans seemed to be in a desperate hurry. Their dead piled up in heaps before U.S. machine guns that jammed from their own heat. The North Koreans kept on coming; the Americans fought to keep their own pace, when they were driven back, to orderly retirement. It was a furious assault, and soundly based on the lessons of military history; the North Koreans were trying to turn a stubbornly fought retreat into a rout, seize the Pusan beachhead area, destroy the U.N. forces...