Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow-up after a letdown from war. . . . We still have a few selfish men who think more of their own personal interests than they do of the public welfare. But you are not going to let them prevail. You are going to force everybody to get into harness and push and pull. . . . Now let's all go home and go to work...
These "intelligent bombs" are limited in scope and usefulness because they have no built-in source of power, are propelled only by the speed of the plane which launches them and by gravity. The rocket-propelled bomb for the push-button war was not yet ready for unveiling. There was nothing at Dayton as futuristic, even, as last year's German...
...Poison & Push Buttons. Congressmen listening to last week's testimony soon learned that the bill could not be judged by ordinary standards. Said Major General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Manhattan Project which developed the bomb: "We are flirting with national suicide if this thing gets out of control. If one mistake is made, we may face national disaster...
...must all get in and push. That doesn't require anything in the world but plain understanding among ourselves . . . cooperation of management and labor and the farmers and every storekeeper, and every man who has an interest in the Government of the United States...
Proud of its handiwork, the Ways & Means Committee prepared at week's end to take its tax bill to the House floor, to push it through under the "gag" rule, which bars the submission of amendments by any but committee members...