Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow, the arrival of 692 second-year men--starting, either their third or their fourth term--is expected to push the total number of MBA candidates over the 1400 mark...
...usual sprinkling of cross country fans, most of whom see only the beginning and end of the race. For the four or five miles in between start and finish, the runner is on his own. There are no time outs or between-round intermissions in cross country. It's push, push, push...
Giant China is squeezed in a double Communist encirclement-from without and from within. Inside the country, Chinese Communists push for power. From without, unremitting pressure is applied to the frontier provinces. Last week, this pressure was squeezing hard on a huge, little-known segment of China-mineral-and oil-rich Sinkiang Province...
...West (actually its South) is still a century-old dream. An English colony failed at Betajoque, a French colony in Maracaibo; 30 miles from Caracas, the capital, is the blond, impoverished remnant of a 19th Century German colony. But the old dream lives on: now Venezuela hopes to push back her frontier with the brains & brawn of Europe's displaced persons...
...into the cockpit of his two-engined, ice-cooled racing car. It was his last chance of the year: the rainy season was at hand on Utah's Bonneville salt flats. The cowling was bolted into place on top of him; a truck gave the car a push. At 20 m.p.h., the engine coughed and then settled into a steady roar. At 140 m.p.h., Cobb shifted into second gear, into high at 240 m.p.h. About halfway down the 14 mile course he entered the measured mile. Cobb, a London fur-broker, had spent over...