Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler's Orel salient seemed doomed. If it fell and if the Red Army also succeeded in liquidating the Belgorod salient, the Russians would be free to make the move the Germans probably feared most -a push southward toward the Sea of Azov, which would cut off the industrial Donets basin and trap large German forces. If this operation could be executed, the great westward march would be under...
...citizens of Phoenixville, Pa. (four miles from Valley Forge) hadn't known such hoopla since the Revolution, when British soldiers pushed as far west as Phoenixville. The town is Big Inch's eastern junction; two pipelines, still uncompleted, will push their separate ways on to Philadelphia, 30 miles away, and Bayway, N.J., 92 miles...
When Lawson stood up, his legs felt numb. He walked around in circles in the driving rain. His oaths were strange and thick. His upper teeth were bent in. He put his thumbs behind them and tried to push them straight. They broke off in his hands. He tried the lower teeth-they came off in his hands too. He stood in the rain with a handful of wet teeth and gum. Davenport came up to him, held Lawson's head back, said: "God damn! You're really bashed open. Your whole face is pushed...
...write off this offensive as a minor island hop. This push can reverse the status of the opposing forces in the Pacific war. We have been fighting a war of defense, irritating the Japs into attacking Guadalcanal, where we slaughtered their planes with clouds of fighters hopping off handy airfields. That was war of attrition. It was defensive, and it was not moving towards Tokyo...
Energetically directed by Coach Norm Fradd, who seems to be a concentrated package of energy, the students went through push-ups, squat jumps, the Burpee test, and a variety of other sweat-producers. Their scores were recorded by their mates, and the hardy lads with the strong wind were temporarily sifted from the panting fellows believed to be in need of what Coach Fradd described as "heavy calisthenics...