Word: driven
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This issue carries the CRIMSON's second annual report on academic freedom. That report is a case history of fear--fear of communism, fear of the strength of its adherents and their ability to win followers. Driven by this fear, colleges and universities have fired teachers and forced faculties to take loyalty oaths. Driven by this fear state legislatures have established these oaths in schools they control, and have set up committees to investigate teachers' loyalty. On private and state-run campuses the entire membership of certain organizations has been barred from teaching by blanket rulings...
Though the commission has three years in which to complete its study and recommendations, it has already proved one thing: the financial crisis has driven educators to work with one another as they have never dreamed of doing before...
...down. Quickly, the people understood the sign: the hail would have shattered a glass-roofed truck. The closed truck was best. Maurizio Ravelli, who looks after the reliquary, had built into the truck a triple floor with springs and delicate silver pistons to ease the passage of the reliquary. Driven at 15 m.p.h. over roads strewn with scarlet poppy petals between rows of kneeling, weeping, praying people, the reliquary made its journey to Rome...
...Philippines have called inaccurate a report (TIME, June 5) that Huks "boldly raided the U.S. air base at Clark Field" a few weeks ago. In an attempt to enter the central fenced-in area of the U.S. air base, unidentified prowlers did cut the fence wire, but were driven off by U.S. gunfire. Clark Field has had other and more serious troubles, however. For many months approaching airplanes, ground patrols and individual Clark Field personnel have been repeatedly fired on by bushwhackers lurking at night on the edges of the sprawling military reservation. Several U.S. airmen and Filipino civilian employees...
Professor Skinner thinks that his studies, still uncompleted, may eventually provide some clues as to why humans behave as they do. Meanwhile, he has at least proved to himself that pigeons inspired by rewards do more work than pigeons driven by punishments...