Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sluggish as the river, but beneath the apparent calm there is a deep, turbulent rift which sometimes whirls up like an assault of wind-whipped breakers. That rift is symbolized by the tablet in the city hall commemorating Garibaldi's visit in 1849 (after the Republicans had driven the Pope from Rome), and by the blue & white statue of the Virgin Mary in the church...
...President's announcement that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb was a decision that most U.S. citizens obviously approved, but about which none could be happy; driven by inexorable forces, the U.S. was setting out to make a weapon that would pale the deadliness of the atomic-fission bomb (see SCIENCE). As events had turned, it was essentially a defensive measure. The Russians could build and doubtless were building their own hydrogen bomb. If undeterred by threat of retaliation in kind, the Russians could deliver it by aircraft almost anywhere in the U.S.; by submarine...
...arrived in London's jam-packed Albert Hall on a time schedule thinner than an E string. Delayed two days in New York by fog and engine trouble, one day in Shannon, Ireland by fog, he found London closed in by weather, was landed 75 miles away and driven by car to the concert hall. In street clothes, he panted onto the platform an hour and a half late, played two concertos without rehearsal. The crowd of 6,000 cheered him for ten minutes. Said Menuhin: "It was a real gremlin trip." Then he was off for concerts...
...Innocents is a great rambling English country house in the 1880s. There, alone with the housekeeper and two children, is a sensitive young governess. But she finds that she is not alone with them. Hovering malignly about are the ghosts of a sinister valet and the governess he had driven to suicide. While these two lived, she learns from the housekeeper, they had some kind of hold over the seemingly innocent but strangely knowing children; and now, she feels, they have it again as ghosts. She sends the eight-year-old girl away with the housekeeper, but chooses to stay...
...engineers, making daily experimental color telecasts from Washington, found that Killy had set up a Cellophane wheel, driven by an old phonograph motor, before his TV screen. Once the wheel was synchronized with the transmitted signal he got a six-inch color picture. "Anyone can do it," said Killy of his makeshift converter. "All the technical stuff you need is to know how to hook up an adapter switch and regulate the speed of the color wheel." Killy's opinion of color TV itself: "I think it's easier on your eyes...