Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Konitsa would be an easy job, the captain assured his squad. "He told us our government would be set up and we would push on to Ioannina. There we would find the Anglo-American commission. We were to take them prisoner, tie them up, and take their clothes away," Dimitri explained. The "Anglo-American commission" seemed to mean the field team from the U.N. Balkan committee...
...Muffle, varsity seatback, commented that Harlow's successor will "probably be a successful small college coach." Nevertheless, the jayvees planned to push the bandwagon harder than ever following the exam period full. They have decided against carrying their drive to the graduate schools and alumni for the present...
...Push. Another stubborn mystery that got the theory treatment: cosmic rays-the enormously powerful particles that slam into the earth's atmosphere. Cosmic rays, said Drs. Donald H. Menzel (Harvard) and W. W. Salisbury (Collins Radio Co.), may be "accelerated particles" from a natural cyclotron whose power source...
...earth's atmosphere. They start with the assumption that disturbances (such as sunspots) on the sun's surface send out powerful radio waves about a million miles long which set up "transient fields" in space. These pick up wandering protons and give them a mighty, long-lasting push. When the protons hit the earth's atmosphere, they have enough energy to rate as cosmic rays...
Jack Lavalle, whose 18 saves made him star of the period, finally lot Bob Barry push one through after a pile-up in front of the nets before the buzzer...