Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thus far, Rubinstein has scooped her longtime rival Elizabeth Arden, who does not plan to push cosmetics for television until TV lights are standardized. NBC's experts use regular theatrical make-up (Stein's and Max Factor...
...nomination of Earl Warren was a political bull's-eye. He gave the ticket a psychological lift; he would unquestionably attract millions of "independent voters." Democrats had hoped to make hay out of Republican failure to push through reclamation projects in the West. But it would be futile to play that game against Republican Earl Warren, one of the foremost spokesmen of the eager-beaver West...
...defective." You halt passenger traffic because "the stations are congested." Then you close the Autobahn bridge across the Elbe for "urgent repairs." Now, on the one precarious road to the West still open to the Western powers, jeeps and buses bounce over ten miles of a cobblestone detour, push onto a creeping, motorless ferry. When someone asks the German policeman aboard how the bridge repairs are coming, he grins: "You don't think they are real...
...last June, Mel Patton's secondhand car wouldn't start. He got out to push, and strained a leg muscle. That was the beginning of trouble for the world's fastest human. Last month, after setting a new world record for 100 yds., Patton pulled another muscle. His injury put a damper on U.S. hopes of winning a single flat race in the Olympics...
...Egyptians tried herbs, the Chinese opium. Neither worked very well. The coming of anesthesia more than a century ago did not help much. General anesthetics such as chloroform and ether made the patient unconscious, and thus unable to cooperate with the doctor and with nature's attempts to push out the baby...