Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...business district of Reno: it smashed floating trees into plate-glass windows, poured into hundreds of lobbies, showrooms and basements, and even forced round-the-clock gambling places to close up. On the California side of the mountains there were floods from Marysville south to Bakersfield; 15,000 were driven from their homes, crops were ruined, livestock drowned and 326,000 acres submerged...
...time of the junction of the Inchon and Pusan beachheads, Tokyo spokesmen had gloatingly reported them trapped. Last week the guerrillas were acting more like rats in a corncrib than like rats in a trap. They had attacked trains, convoys, supply dumps, command posts, burned or terrorized towns, driven thousands of Koreans from their homes. They seemed to be centrally directed by General Kim Chaek, the North Korean who commanded the June invasion and later became occupation commander of Seoul. R.O.K. intelligence officers had intercepted radio messages to Kim's headquarters, which they believed to be in the hills...
...only serious counterattacks by the enemy during the week were launched in the Tokchon area, near the center of North Korea's narrow waist, and on the northeast coast. In both cases R.O.K. units bore the brunt. At Tokchon R.O.K. troops were driven to the south of the Taedong River, but bounced back across it and seized 3,000-ft. Wolbong Mountain, commanding several miles of lateral road along the front. On the east coast the Reds were stopped with the help of Allied airplanes and naval gunfire, from the cruiser Rochester and a destroyer. This week the South...
...week the folks were getting their chance. Trouper Hildegarde, a long way from the comfortable coziness of such glamorous old hangouts as the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza, was in the midst of a barnstorming tour of 65 one-night stands. Her caravan included her own chauffeur-driven Cadillac, five other sedans for her staff and ten-piece orchestra, and a pastel-yellow Mack truck for the musical instruments and her four trunks of gowns...
...wrote Huie, Forrestal spent $150,000 of his own and his friends' money on such payoffs in France and Italy. When Forrestal was finally "driven from office" and suffered a nervous collapse, Huie implied, the Navy turned Forrestal's suite in a Navy hospital into a kind of prison and barred him from people he wanted to see, notably Msgr. Maurice S. Sheehy of Catholic University, Washington, a Navy chaplain. Predicted Huie: "Unless the Administration can prevent it, there will be a Congressional investigation...