Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Allied armies on the western front waited for Antwerp to open up, there could be no general push. So, while U.S. troops, from Belgium south, scrapped fiercely in local actions and conserved their ammunition, the only full-scale fighting was in The Netherlands, where the Germans were in orderly retreat northward across the Maas...
...slowly hardened into the seemingly resigned, latently hopeful man he is. In battle his hatred for MPs has softened, because MPs also die. His enthusiasm for undermining the "officer system" has waned. He studiously avoids talk of fear and death. He knows that his only reward for pushing the enemy back over one cold, rocky mountain is a chance to push him over the next...
Through Yugoslavia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Russians were forming their lines, building up supply, preparing for the push that would take them to Austria and Germany's south. The Nazis' weakest front was going to feel some pounding...
Colonel John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson, director of the Office of Defense Transportation, pushed his way through the milling mob jampacking the lobby of Chicago's Hotel Stevens. The farther he had to push, the madder he got; almost everyone he bumped was wearing some convention badge. Near the crowded elevators, his eye fell on the long list of conventions and meetings on the bulletin board. This was more than ODT's boss could bear. He roared: "There are more damn conventions in Chicago this week than there should be in the entire country...
...machine, air is taken in at the front, compressed by a turbine-driven mechanical compressor (e.g., a fan), then mixed with fuel in a combustion chamber and expelled at the rear, the impact of the expanding air and gas, like a gun's recoil, giving the machine its push. But a compressor would have added greatly to the bomb's weight and complexity. To eliminate it, the Nazis hit on a way to use the force of the inrushing air itself. A grill with nine small jets is mounted in front (see cut, right). Behind...