Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Crimson has blown hot and cold all season. Only the first line of Captain Amory Hubbard, Walt Greeley, and Bitsy Grant has shown consistent scoring punch. In his last two games grant has driven in six goals, on setups from his line-mates...
...Eliot began his journey through the waste land in the heart of a land of plenty. The youngest, most coddled of seven children, he was born (1888) in St. Louis, a city filled with the disorder of growth and a booming faith in the nation, in business, in machine-driven progress...
...presenting the trophies, Clarence S. Beesemyer, vice president of California's General Petroleum Co., the contest's sponsor, said: "These mileages give the general public something to shoot at. They prove just what a properly driven and properly maintained car will do." But few U.S. drivers would sandpaper their feet for such mileage...
...adapt the bestselling story of a jazz musician's integrity, winds up badly in need of some integrity of its own. Suggested vaguely by the career of the late great Bix Beiderbecke, Dorothy Baker's 1938 novel told the story of a hot trumpet virtuoso who is driven and destroyed by the monomania of a jazz perfectionist. The film makes the hero (Kirk Douglas) largely the victim of a bad woman (Lauren Bacall). He is saved by the love of a good one (Doris Day) in time for a happy ending that...
...wrote Masefield in his poem Biography (1912). Earlier in his life, when the formless urge to write had driven the young apprentice seaman from the sea he loved into a Yonkers, N.Y. carpet factory, Masefield had taken an even gloomier view. "It was most unlikely," he despaired, "that I should ever be able to write anything which anyone would print...