Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suppose the slanted coverage of the press does not push or national attitude off the springboard to war; suppose this organized drive to discount liberals does not destroy civil liberties. What then is there to worry about? Why not let the Boston Heralds and the Luces blow their horns until their breath is all gone...
...Chuck Yeager like a sledge hammer and the X-1 climbed high at tremendous speed. ("It's like having hold of something by the tail and not daring let go.") At carefully timed intervals he fired the other rockets. Each gave the little orange airplane another mighty push. Chuck didn't hear much noise; he was leaving sound behind...
...should be able to carry nearly twice as much lox and alcohol. This single improvement (there may be others) should push it into a much higher speed range. Numerous guessers around California airfields speculate that it ought to climb well above 100,000 ft. At this altitude the air is so thin that tremendous speed should be possible...
Alarmed, the Florida State Pharmaceutical Association called emergency meetings to push an appeal for a rehearing on the decision. Cried Secretary-Manager R. Q. Richards: "If this decision stands, I predict that within three years at least 300 businesses, most of them small units, will go broke." Said jubilant Doc Webb: "For the man in the street, it is the people's victory against price-fixing...
...biggest objection to "Command Decision" as a film is the way it handles war fought on the executive level. The screen is filled with maps, charts, tables of plane losses, and movies-within-movies of the latest German jet-fighters. The Generals push their map-pins and calculate their losses with a pleasant detachment from reality, unfortunately near the conventional idea of all military command. This was not true of the play; it is not characteristic of all films. "Paisan," which showed just how good war movies could be, had a command decision too, in an episode involved with guerrilla...