Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Driven to a 100-mile depth in the Kharkov push alone; retaken 4,500 square miles of territory, or half the area of Sicily...
What Are We Waiting For? Back from three and a half months in the Pacific, TIME Correspondent Duncan Norton-Taylor had an answer to the question, why do not the Allies start an all-out Pacific push? The answer: they are not able to, nor will they be in the immediate future. Even if enough men and supplies were made available in the Pacific, the great factor against the Allies would still be distance, the thousands of miles of water over which the Navy, with too few cargo ships and transports, must carry supplies...
While in New York, Boolba worked with Bell Laboratories in the telephone systems development department for over ten years, dealing largely with dial systers. In 1928, long before commercial models appeared, he built his own Fixed Frequency Push-button tuned radio. Unfortunately he neglected to patent his invention, and so what might have been a gold mine slipped through his fingers and fell to someone else...
Later, Boolba developed his own remote control circuit for tuning radios at long distance with push buttons "It's for lazy people," says Boolba, but he has made several large installations, for special purposes. Still, the thought of his unexploited first "lazy man's gadget" rankles him whenever he tunes his own push-button control FM-AM model...
Perhaps he hasn't the push and drive of a year ago, for he lacks proper food to stand up under pressure-work punishment. What meat, especially beef, can be bought in this area is hardly fit to eat, and his wife has probably stood in line for an hour to buy it. He can't buy decent cheese, and his milk is so skimmed it is fit only for hog wash...