Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draft peace treaties for Germany's defeated satellites. In London, the Deputy Foreign Ministers had vainly tried it, six days a week, for twelve weeks. They failed because Russia wanted 1) to consolidate her already pre-eminent position in the Balkans, and 2) to push on into the Mediterranean. The Western powers were resisting that advance...
...years before, Mussolini had marched on Corfu. The three-year-old League had been too timid to rebuke him, so France and Britain had elbowed it aside to push the aggressor out themselves. Paraguay and Bolivia had fought a three-year war over South America's Chaco without interference. And Japan had marched calmly into Manchuria and out of Geneva. "The League," said Delegate Matsuoka then, "has done an awful thing. ... It has attempted to elevate itself to a superstate. Is the world at this stage really prepared to accept...
...Army has 25 V2s ready for assembly at White Sands and plans to launch them on a schedule of one a week. They should gradually push to higher altitudes -ordnance men have their sights on 120 miles-and rapidly expand man's knowledge of his world...
...While the labor leaders, industrial giants, and various Federal agencies jockey for top spots in the new era of pushbutton prosperity, the small manufacturers cannot even get the material to make the push buttons. Their labor costs rise whenever the powerful unions effect a wage boost, the cost of their raw materials goes up whenever the large corporations break through a price ceiling, and the daily changes in Federal rules multiply their clerical work and overhead costs...
...push the demon back into his cell...