Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morgenthau and the members of Congress, the chances of getting anything done before March 15th, the beginning of the fiscal year, seem very poor. It looks like a race between Congress and the Treasury to see who can change the Ruml plan enough to call it their own prodigy, push it through the legislative mill, and take the credit. Looking back over the record of the Treasury's failures on Capitol Hill, it looks like easy money on Congress, a seat in the bleachers for Mr. Ruml, and a sharp jolt to the taxpayer who has been floating around...
This assault is actually nothing new: it started in a small way about four years ago, gradually highballed into a big push. First in the field was prophetic, hard-bitten Lewis S. Rosenstiel, board chairman of giant Schenley Distillers. His company paid $300,000 for venerable Cresta Blanca
...strategy in Russia: to outflank Moscow from the south, render the Volga lifeline useless to the Russians and secure the German flank driving through the Caucasus toward Baku and the Middle East. It also meant that the Red Armies defending Stalingrad and the Volga were free to push west and join the armies smashing at Rostov and Kharkov...
...they started their hike across the ridges: " 'Have you ever seen men killed on the field of battle?' 'No, the only dead people I've ever seen were drowned.' 'Well,' he said, 'you'll probably see some out of this push. . . . It's a pathetic sight. You'll see. They look just like dirty-faced little boys who have gone to bed without being tucked in by their mothers...
Stolid Premier Per Albin Hansson looked anxiously over clean, quiet Stockholm, at Sweden's six-thousand-mile-long frontier, and beyond. Across the war-torn Baltic, Red Armies had lifted the siege of Leningrad (see p. 33) and threatened to push on into starving, freezing Finland. To the south, British and U.S. bombs fell regularly on German cities. Westward, across the Skagerrak, German sappers and soldiers from Trondheim to Narvik threw up fortifications against the Allied attack they feared...