Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer in the hands of push-button extremists, no longer a competitive pursuit by Army, Navy and Air Forces of a will-o'-the-wisp, a research program has been coordinated under a civilian-dominated Joint Research & Development Board. By mid-1949 the board expects to have a working model of a supersonic, target-seeking antiaircraft missile (see SCIENCE), the first line of passive defense against rocket assault. Sometime after 1952 it hopes to have the ultimate in destructiveness: a supersonic missile which can be guided under full control to a target 3,000 to 5,000 miles away...
...week all summer. Tennis courts, behind the Business School, have been readied for use from 11 to 5 o'clock. The pool will be open for business at 11:15, 12:15, 2 and 3 o'clock. Upstairs a few flights in the Indoor Building, there will be push-ups at 12:15 o'clock for those who want to work off excess baggage...
...month, a fact which causes landlords and realtors who are enjoying inflated prices to look on the bill with fishy eyes. A whole bevy of pressure groups, including the American Legion, is trying to block Congressional action on the bill. But sufficient needling from a home-wanting public can push it onto the Senate floor...
...take-off power, he faced one of a pilot's most critical decisions. Should he use the rest of the runway in trying to get off? Or should he obey the classic flying rule that it is safer to plough through a fence on the ground than to push through, a bad takeoff...
...world sugar supply of 15 million tons. The U.S. share is 1.4 million tons more than last year. The supply, enough for 85 to 90 pounds per capita, will still be short of the prewar consumption of 96.5 Ibs., and sugar men think that present demand is enough to push consumption up to 100 Ibs. if consumers could get all the sugar they want. So even if rationing is maintained until the Oct. 31 deadline, the sugar industry expects retail prices to jump when free trading is restored...