Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied offensive from the Middle East has two possible routes. By sea, it could skirt the south coast of Tur key, push up into the Dodecanese Islands until the Greek coast is reached. Biggest stumbling block to such an advance: the strong Axis fortress of Crete, where the Germans have two big air bases and other bases for E-boats and submarines. The Dodecanese are lightly manned; last week there were reports that the Italians were evacuating some of the southernmost islands and that Germans were moving in. The strongest of the group, the Italian-held island of Rhodes...
...John Harvey Kellogg sold him on 1) a vegetarian diet, 2) the evils of drinking water at mealtime, 3) the evils of tobacco at any time. William tried to sell Childs customers on a similar Spartan bill of fare. General sales resistance finally roused hungry Childs stockholders to push him out of the company in 1929. Nine years later (in 1938) he died on his New Jersey estate...
...notion that women airmen are good only for flying light craft like Piper Cubs and Aeroncas. Featured airwomen like Jackie Cochran long ago kicked the theory on the shins by flying such "hot" craft as the Seversky P-35, the Lockheed Hudson (one of which she helped push across the Atlantic). The WAFS' new graduates had proved it in the mass. They had flown everything from grasshoppers to snappy two-engined Cessna...
...Japanese push was surging westward along the Yangtze River. Immediate objectives seemed to be: 1) clearing the river between Hankow and Ichang; 2) seizing control of the western outlet of the 120-mile stretch of Yangtze gorges through which Chinese supplies are fed to the central front...
...building. Ticketholders jammed the front door of the House wing. A Texas state senator and the Governor of North Carolina tried to wedge in ticketless, were sent packing. "Get back there!" barked a policeman as he collared another man, tall, dour-faced, pince-nezed, who was trying to push by. "I'm the Secretary of the Treasury," said Henry Morgenthau, mildly. Inside, each ticketholder was given a brisk frisk for weapons before he could proceed to the galleries, where another hundred Secret Service men were scattered...