Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jubilantly Colonel Diego Brosset, onetime officer in the French Mehariste Camel Corps, took to the radio in London, in soldierly language exhorted the Free French to push on, urged the troops in Weygand's command to pitch in with them. "It is Brosset, a Saharan of Algiers, of Morocco, of Mauritania and the Sudan, who is asking you if you remember that ardor and devotion whose tradition once existed in the oases, in rocks, in mountains and in the desert. . . . Are you still worthy . . . Meharistes, who were my own young men? . . . Remember that Lawrence was at Damascus before...
...ragged Albanian battle front, wherever the Italians tried to push forward, the Greeks pushed them a little farther back. In every sector they wiped out the few gains General Ugo Cavallero had made in a month...
...total increased slightly. (Among the newcomers: kraft pulp & paper, soap, building materials, chemicals). The South already obtains 260% more wealth from its factories than from its farms. Even if defense does not complete the industrialization of the South overnight, no one could doubt that it would give a push in the right direction-the direction in which the South was already going...
Captain Potter is the standout member of the visiting squad. He will take the breastroke hands down, and teammate Jim O'Mara should push Art Bosworth hard in the backstroke. The Indians have average strength in the dives in John Carney and Warner Willcox...
...their Eritrean push, the British used a skill which was more than tactical. The region around Agordat is inhabited by a tribe of pure Hamites, direct descendants of ancient Egyptians, in religion mostly Moslem. There are also quite a few Indians in Eritrea. They do not like their Italian any more than any other white masters...