Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another comes from Senior Editor Sidney Olson, now at the front as our correspondent with General Simpson's Ninth Army in Germany. Just before the big push across the Roer he cabled...
...week's end there were other great events: the flag-raising on Corregidor, the renewed air blows at Tokyo, and the battering push toward the plain of Cologne (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). But Iwo held top place in the minds and hearts of Americans. Henceforth, Iwo would be a place name in U.S. history to rank with Valley Forge, Gettysburg and Tarawa. Few in this generation would ever forget Iwo's shifting black sands, or the mind's images of charging marines, or the sculptured picture of Old Glory rising atop Mount Suribachi...
...troops, beginning a new push against Germany, were more than anxious to greet their Russian comrades. Stars & Stripes printed its first Russian lesson; signs of "WELCOME IVAN" blossomed in the Western Front's rubble. Into a U.S. battalion headquarters walked a deadpan U.S. sergeant, costumed as a Russian, who gestured at a map of Germany and said: "We have captured all this. Now, comrades, we need rest, beds...
Pressure in the Center. To many a doughfoot it must have seemed that the Germans were reacting slowly, that a rather big push was already on. Along a 40-mile front east of the Ardennes some six divisions of Lieut. General Courtney Hodges' First Army, some four of Lieut. General George Patton's Third Army, were clawing their way through the saw-toothed tank traps, over the concrete pillboxes of the Siegfried Line...
...Clearly," said he, "we here have an entirely new phenomenon-the circular movement of matter caused by light. It reveals that just as matter rotates light, so light rotates matter. . . . Light can exert a force on a small particle comparable to the force of gravity. It can exert a push or a pull...