Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole city, somnolent since the great Willkie push in 1940, throbbed with excitement. Workmen put finishing touches on the $500,000 refurbishing of Convention Hall. Five shapely models, employed by a local restaurateur, patrolled such busy intersections as Chestnut & Broad, sporting large sashes with the provocative inscription: "Ask me anything." City officials passed the word to Philadelphia police that the 2 a.m. curfew was off for the duration...
...demonstration so riled some Senators that they angrily trumpeted their determination to push the Mundt-Nixon bill through-although it had been headed for the shelf. That was O.K. with the Communists. If the bill became law they would be martyrs. If it didn't, they could chortle triumphantly that they had killed...
...believe the Prime Minister wants to go ahead with necessary changes," said Saragat last week. "Otherwise I wouldn't have entered the cabinet. Our task is to give him all possible support, to push and suggest that which will benefit the working classes." Of Communists, Saragat has said: "Nothing separates us-except a great abyss." But his alliance with De Gasperi was an uneasy one. Said the Premier recently of his colleague: "Saragat sometimes seems to hear the call of the wild...
...Olympic hopefuls, the big push was just beginning. Final tryouts in 134 events -from bicycling to canoeing-will be run off before the S.S. America sails next month for London with its cargo of 375 U.S. athletes...
Confidence in the Future. What the bull wagon needed, if it was going to get rolling, was a public push. The "little fellow," who traditionally gets in the market just in time to get cleaned out, was not taking any big chances yet. Said Francis Adams Truslow, president of the New York Curb Exchange: "Investors have been hesitating for the past several years. They are just beginning to exhibit their confidence in the future...