Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After considerable tinkering, the U.S. auto industry finally got itself out of storage last week. The motor was .still misfiring, but it was running well enough to push production to its highest peak since the General Motors strike started. The industry hopes to turn out about 75,000 cars in January-as many as it had turned out all last year...
Some college coaches scout for themselves, but more trust the job to assistants or to game-wise alumni. The job: 1) to record each play and shot, elaborately charted with identifying letters (H for hook shots, S for set, P for push); 2) to uncover players' idiosyncrasies and ways to block hot basket-makers; 3) to cook up tricky defenses. Few ambitious coaches can afford not to scout...
...picture opens, Corporal Hargrove and his muddy unit are trying to push a truck out of a ditch in France; when it ends they are deep in the same trouble. In the interim Hargrove has overwhelmed a French town by mere awkward charm, been energetically pursued by the mayor's vivacious daughter (Jean Porter), taken a number of Nazis prisoner and been elaborately swindled, along with Private Mulvehill...
...businessmen have put up about $10,000,000 to push a $200,000,000 claim. If Palestine loses, the jiftlik will be divided 40% for the investors, 60% for the progeny of Abdul the Damned...
...Atlas who hopes to push World to a top place in the reprint business is small, owlish, President Benjamin D. Zevin, 44. A New Yorker and ex-advertising man, Ben Zevin got into the book business by marriage, into mass distribution of reprints by pondering on old jokes...