Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cushion the new line against pressure from the west, the Japanese seemed also to be building a defense belt beyond the railroad. There was a worse, though still remote possibility: from Loyang, the Japanese might try to push on westward through the famed Tungkwan mountain pass, spill into the loess plain of Shansi. Then even China's truck roads to Russia would be in peril...
...getting only 170 tons of supplies per day per division. While this is plenty during a lull, the Germans would need at least 200 tons per day per division if an all-out Allied blow forced them to rise up and fight. Still needed: the all-out Allied push, a seeming impossibility now, when reserves are few on the Italian front.* But if what Uncle Joe's pilots reported was true, if the German was being slowly bled to death, things must still be different...
Many more, disposed along northwest Europe's splendid network of highways and strategic railroads would be shot into action as the battle developed into a full-out push at the heart of the Reich. If the invasion was to be stopped, Rommel and Rundstedt would have to make a quick, accurate diagnosis of Eisenhower's intentions, then commit their forces without delay in a great gamble for victory...
...Honan's people, emaciated after two years of famine, the enemy push held but one promise: another hungry year...
...Shark Industries, Inc., including a small vitamin-processing plant at Salerno, Fla. This plant will become its base for a vast shark-fishing operation in the Caribbean. If necessary to meet the U.S. demand for 149 trillion U.S.P. units of vitamin A 1 this year, Borden will push on down the East Coast of South America...