Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That venerable, paunchy group of symphonists, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, was billed to appear in Ankara before the end of March. Their program was not announced to the world at large, but last week it seemed almost certain that they would play the overture to a great Middle Eastern push by Adolf Hitler...
...miles east of New Guinea. Whether the Japs actually landed the small forces necessary to deal with the Solomons' indifferent natives and few, malarial whites was not clear early this week. But the object of such a move was very clear. From the Solomons the Japs could push southward to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. They could then use the islands for basing raids against the vital U.S.-New Zealand supply route, or for a naval and air sweep against eastern Australia...
...five days they had not eaten or slept. . . . They waved us on with cheery smiles, and as we passed them the colonel's parting words were still in our ears: 'We expect they'll come back to give us another pasting; you boys had better push...
...probably be registered in the 440, where he is defending champion. His marks in the quarter mile have twice this season broken Bill Kendall's old dual meet record of 4:50.5 and Chouteau is now exactly three seconds under this time. John Storrs of Dartmouth is likely to push him hardest, the Indians' star having turned in a 4:54.9 clocking again Pennsylvania on March 7. Bill Trubee of Princeton was unbeaten at this distance but has not been below 5:06. Warren Fisher of Cornell, Dave Barnes of Harvard, Arras, Peters and MacLeman of Yale are others whose...
...over 1,500 reporters and editors-Editor & Publisher obligingly published the figures-but the Army does not know where they are. The Army knows where lots of other professionals are: with its punched index cards, all the Army has to do is to pour cards into a machine and push a button: out comes a list of ex-cooks, ex-taxi drivers, or ex-engineers, as required. But not newsmen. Their talents had not seemed useful enough for separate classification. The thousands of them already in uniform were, so far as the Army was concerned, lost...