Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could seize the ferry slips on the Salween's west bank, he would achieve a substantial success. For the disputed bridgehead could play a key role in an Allied push into northern Burma...
Lord Louis had arrived to iron out the last organizational wrinkles in his new command, to get set for an expected push into Burma or Malaya. That day he talked with U.S., Chinese and British officers. Next day arrived Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the U.S. Army Service Forces, and Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell, U.S. commander in the China-Burma-India theater. From New Delhi Lord Louis planned a trip to Chungking to talk over with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the big and vital job of reopening an overland path to China...
...angle, or position, block is designed to get the most thorough block from the least power by hitting the would-be tackler from some sort of an angle, and with any one of a dozen different types of blocks. None of this push-and-pull strength test stuff. The Harlow system is scientific...
...worth much in the back pack, dog-team and canoe economy of the north country. Soon Imperial capped its wells, laid low until 1932 when the radium and the later gold-mining push at Great Bear Lake and Yellowknife, and the advent of air communication, made a teakettle refinery at Norman Wells worth while. For ten years the half-pint plant was operated in the open-water season, closed down for the winter...
...obdurate: after a short period of skepticism, the local California doctors cooperated fully with Garfield's 60 physicians. But the Northern Permanente Hospital at Vancouver ran afoul of the A.M.A.'s "invisible hand": through the Government's Procurement and Assignment Service, the A.M.A. threatened to push some young Kaiser doctors into the Army by declaring them nonessential workers (TIME, Nov. 23, 1942). Kaiser and Garfield got them to hold off until replacements were found...