Word: push
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concentrating their forces last week in the Hongkew section, the Chinese drove down towards the river through the eastern extension of the International Settlement, until the Japanese warships opened fire to support their forces on land. Across the river on the right bank other Japanese troops tried to push back Chinese defending forces. Down from the Bund through this crossfire Americans were ferried to the mouth of the Whangpoo where ships picked them up to carry them to sea and safety. Meantime Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell placed the U. S. S. Augusta (see map) so as to give maximum protection...
Month ago when he took the President's commission to find a Court compromise and push it through (TIME, June 14 et seq.) it had not looked difficult. Instead of six new justices at one fell swoop, he had chosen a plan for four new justices, one a year, and had had no difficulty in finding some 54 of the 96 Senators who seemed willing to vote for this modified plan. But during the week of debate, men on whom he had counted had been slipping away. The opposition had been arguing that if it was wrong to pack...
Starting fortnight ago, this "Big Push" cut a swath nearly ten miles wide and ten miles deep into Rightist positions west of Madrid (TIME, July 19). By last week the Rightists had had to halt their own offensive against Santander on the North in order to release enough troops and planes to check the Leftist drive. They had it retarded after nine days...
...third term. Fred W. Perkins, oldtime newshawk attached to Scripps-Howard's Pittsburgh Press, brought it up. Robert Post, Harvard '32 and a lodge-brother of the Roosevelts in Harvard's Fly Club, now a newshawklet for the New York Times helped to push the question home...
Technician Brown, long at the profession and in a hurry, as everyone at busy Bellevue must be, told the girl to turn on her side for another view of her insides. As he slid a second cassette under her with his right hand, with his left he started to push the tube into position. Then the accident happened which X-ray operators fear more than the sterilization which their profession makes practically inevitable...