Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this work mine-laying destroyers (including the three escaped Polish vessels) were used, with mine-laying submarines and planes to push into the farthest reaches. Leaving a path 20 miles wide for neutral Sweden, the Allies said they mined also the northern half of the Skagerrak, up into Oslo Fjord. For an added fillip they said their mines were of a new type against which there was no known defense. Used in these operations undoubtedly were plenty of France's big submarines which can lay 150 mines per trip. Somewhere along the line the British Spearfish took a crack...
...Great Britain have new planes (but not new, secret devices) which otherwise would soon become obsolescent and have to be replaced. Timid Mr. Woodring, who had opposed just such a policy last year, insisted last week that the new policy is now his. "I am not very easily pushed around," said the push-happy Secretary...
...Louis Johnson, who used to push Mr. Woodring around without mercy, cordially aided the Secretary during his testimony last week. This change did not surprise those who had seen hanging in Mr. Johnson's office a sign: "We ain't mad with nobody...
Jehovah's Witnesses are a Bible-dizzy cult whose zealous members push doorbells, hand out pamphlets, play phonograph records, to anyone who will listen, denouncing the Roman Catholic Church. In New Haven, Conn., two years ago, Witness Newton Cantwell and his sons Jesse, 16, and Russell, 18, toured Cassius Street-a lean & hungry district whose population is 90% Catholic. Jesse Cantwell played his record to John Ganley and John Cafferty, Catholics. Squeaked the record, describing a book called Enemies: "This book submits the conclusive proof that for more than 1,500 years a great religious system, operating...
Roman Catholic position: Such a gadget is harmless but not efficacious, in the same class as a prayer ring (which has ten notches so that the wearer may count his prayers). Indulgences (i.e., remissions of temporal punishment for repented sin) will not be granted for any number of push-buttoned prayers...