Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial area of the central Ukraine was now lost to the Russians, and the invader pressed on for the vital Donets basin, where most of Russia's coal and much of its remaining industry lie. This push seemed to be developing in the familiar pattern: two prongs reaching out to encircle and squeeze. One hit for Kharkov, the Ukraine's second city. The other struck southeast along the coast to the Sea of Azov...
...push developed, Dargue's airmen bombed the Reds with leaflets: "Your commanders are withholding from you the terrible fact of your impending defeat. Your gasoline stores have been captured. From now on, if you move, you do it on the soles of your shoes...
What Nye thought of the movies was no secret. He had publicly accused the companies of trying to make the U.S. "punch-drunk with propaganda to push her into war." He had accused Jewish and foreign-born producers-Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Darryl Zanuck, Sam Goldwyn, Murray Silverstone and others-emotionally agitated by Hitler, of being responsible. Said he: primarily responsible for movie war propaganda were "four names, each that of one of the Jewish faith, each one foreign-born." Yet he denied that he was antiSemitic, said "I remain, as yet at least, bitterly opposed to the injection...
...Turkish border have kept the Ankara Government jumpy. A land offensive, synchronized with attacks by Admiral Raeder's fleet on Istanbul and the Italian Fleet on the Mediterranean end of the Straits, might win the Axis control of the Dardanelles, enable an Italian naval force to push into the Black...
...half the life in The Wookey comes from Edmund Gwenn, an actor with a capacity for making mediocre parts seem masterpieces of playwriting. In the cinema Foreign Correspondent, as an eerie minor villain who tried to push hero Joel McCrea off a tall tower, in The Earl of Chicago as a gentleman's gentleman who looked after gangster Robert Montgomery, he stole whole scenes from the principals. But as Mr. Wookey he steals nothing; the play is handed to him and he runs away with...