Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon stirring up memorandums and directives-green for LeMay, pink for able Air Force Secretary James Douglas, white for his staff. Around him hangs the sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining, the wise old pilot who led the USAF from props to jets. There Tommy White does his broad-gauge best with what he has. But nobody in the Pentagon knows better than he that he has his problems too. Among them...
There was a crush at my shoulders and a push from my back as the entire Moscow press corps moved forward. I was conscious of a straining forward in the mob around me, a whispered rustle of notes being made of every word, a great effort in my brain to say something to match the occasion...
...auction, Parke-Bernet sent out 850 for the main, velvet-draped salesroom, another 700 for side galleries, where for the first time at a U.S. auction bidders could view the works in black and white on closed-circuit TV, have their bids transmitted by loudspeaker. Forewarned of the expected crush, Millionaire Collectors Nelson Rockefeller and Winthrop Aldrich arrived 1½ hours early to get seats. Metropolitan Museum Director James J. Rorimer, arriving late, had to sit on the floor in front of the auctioneers' rostrum; Mrs. Stavros Niarchos found herself tucked away out of sight in the wings...
...Fearful Civilians. With Zhukov refusing to accept a face-saving reassignment, Khrushchev was left with only two alternatives: either he must back down or he must utterly crush Zhukov...
...Party Secretary. When the showdown with Beria came, it was Zhukov who ordered the army's tanks into the heart of Moscow to paralyze Beria's police. Elevated to Defense Minister, Zhukov was the man who ordered Soviet tanks into Budapest ("liquidating fascism," he called it) to crush the Hungarian rebellion for Khrushchev. Last June, when the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich forces mustered a majority in the Presidium, it was. Zhukov who saved Khrushchev by throwing the army's support to him. As a reward, he was named to the Presidium itself, the first professional soldier ever...