Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...street fighting, Reds shot down some G.I.s who had tried to surrender; other U.S. troops were driven to acts of desperation and of heroism. Private Darcy Brady, from Gassaway, W. Va., piled eleven wounded men into a jeep and took off at top speed for the U.S. lines. Red machine-gunners opened fire, seconds too late. Brady's speeding jeep bounced crazily over the heavily mined no man's land to safety...
...Here is an artist who, hailing from the most amiably rowdy and self-confident community the world has ever known, has elected to express the timidity that can never be wholly driven out of the boast-fullest heart. To a people whose ideal of manhood is husky, full-blooded and self-reliant, he has chosen to suggest that, under the ... crashing self-assertion, man is still only a child, frightened and whimpering in the dark...
...hoarding, and some profiteering, had already sent the price of food hopping. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that scare buying had driven the wholesale price of food up more than 7% between June 23 and July...
Winter's Tale. In Sanford, Fla., a 1925 Ford driven by Henry McLaulin, 81, collided with a 1923 Ford driven by Henry Bush...
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 3) World Enough and Time, by Robert Penn Warren. Political intrigue, murder and a good man's struggles of conscience in early 19th Century Kentucky; a rich, uneven historical novel by the author of All the King's Men (TIME, June...