Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every platform sat Mrs. Willkie, arms filled with flowers; Ed Willkie, open-mouthed in admiration of his brother, his lips mumbling over the words as his brother spoke them. Invariably he led the applause; then waking as from a dream, would push a way to the waiting automobile with Mrs. Willkie, his gentle voice more effective even than the ham-hands that had made him an All-America tackle and an Olympic wrestling champion...
Those who expect synthetics some day to push rubber off the market entirely, those who think the Mexican guayule bush a better bet, looked dubious; but Vargas was confident. That he had rubber-worried Uncle Sam behind him to some extent was indicated by the fact that at Manaus he received exhaustive reports from experts of the U. S. Department of Agriculture working in conjunction with private experts from Goodyear. In Belem, Vargas lunched with John Ingle, head of Goodyear's Crude Rubber Division, who flew there from Akron as guest of Vargas' golf partner, Brazil...
There were four main areas of Chinese push. Up north in Shansi a Chinese force of 20,000 was at work. In central China, near Nanking, Chinese mercenary troops of the Japanese puppet Wang Ching-wei reportedly revolted, blew up two Japanese troop trains and attacked several small villages. A Chinese force also attacked the town of Langsi and "liquidated all of the Japanese defenders." Farther south, only 100 miles from Shanghai, another Chinese Army forced its way across the Chientang River. In the extreme southwest, whence the Japanese carelessly drained troops for the investment of Indo-China, some...
Democrat Byrnes. Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina, New Deal trouble shooter, was sent north this week to push over teetering New York State, coordinate ineffectual Boss Ed Flynn, amateur Tommy Corcoran. Charged Byrnes, speaking of a Willkie blast at insufficient conscription housing: "Result of Mr. Willkie's misleading statement . . . was to strike fear into the hearts of American mothers. . . ." (On tanks) "Mr. Willkie was unfair to the President, to the Army and to the Chrysler Corporation...
Harvard's final tally came late in the last stanza on Vander Eb's second filed goal. From then on the game evolved into a mad aerial attack by both teams. The Crimson threatened at the end of the game, but was enable to push it over...