Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first postwar group of Europe's displaced persons. Their entry had been eased a little, but not much, by presidential directive. Since then only a corporal's guard-some 36,000-of the continent's driven D.P. army of 900,000 have been permitted to push past the gates...
...cockpit of a big modern airliner is a nightmare of instruments, switches, knobs, push buttons and warning lights. They crowd for attention in front of the pilot and copilot. They encrust the walls, drip from the roof like stalactites and overflow into the cubbyhole where the flight engineer sits. On a Boeing Strato-liner, there are 598 gadgets to watch. The three-man crew must know what each one is, where it is, and how to use it instantly. In an emergency, a few seconds of fumbling may mean a crash...
...exporter of passenger cars. The three-month score: Great Britain, 56,812; the U.S., 55,444. (During March, Britain's carmakers, whose export quota is 75% of total production, edged this up to 78%.) Most U.S. motormakers, selling all they can make at home, have not tried to push exports...
M.I.T.'s lacrosse forces have had a dismal season so far, not the least depressing part of which was their 21-2 loss to Dartmouth. But the Techmen have always had a hidden desire to push their Cambridge cousins even further up the Charles River than Harvard Square. Last year they extended the Crimson by collecting six goals, and in '46 dropped a squeaker...
...present most of HYRC's work is internal--only its mock convention Thursday parallels the activity of other groups. Rusher is saving his strength for the big push next fall, when the full force of the club will be brought to bear on local and national elections...