Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...better to keep them in sight. The fact was, the McCarran bill would probably drive the Reds underground. But that was its chief usefulness. The reiterated Communist threat to go underground is political blackmail; there never was a revolutionary party which went wholly underground of its own free will. Driven underground, Communism would be deprived of its recruiting agencies, its propaganda outlets; its subversive lies would be muffled...
This week, two tank-led enemy columns sliced through South Korean defenses in the northeast, threatened to outflank both Taegu and Pohang. But in the southwest, counterattacking G.I.s of the 25th Division had driven back to their old positions west of Haman and Masan. The big push was checked...
Then the take-off signal went up all the way. First the Corsairs were shot from the catapults, then the big, rumbling Skyraider dive bombers; and after the propeller-driven craft were well away, the jets were brought forward. Started by motors hustled about the deck by tiny yellow jeeps, the Grumman Panthers shrieked protest, then raised their voices to a horrible, thundering howl as they shot from the catapults...
Reporter Melady gets the truth in the end, and Nathan gets two of the Aycocks before he is cornered and driven to suicide. But the characters are a mighty long time aflounderin' around in the Southern-cliche brakes before release comes. Streams of tobacco juice squirt in all directions, brass spittoons chime, calico dresses strain around the exciting hips of 15-year-old girls, and somewhere a mockingbird sings...
...complaining to police that a horse had kicked in a fender of his car, Motorist Robert C. Pearson was informed that all he could do was bring a civil suit for damages: "It's not a motor vehicle violation, because a horse is not operated by a gasoline-driven motor...