Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin was full of apprehension ("a lull before a storm"). The Red command, it said, was massing troops from the Black Sea to the Pripet Marshes for a new all-out push, coordinated with the Allied invasion of the west...
...German units changed their route again & again, wasted men and precious time. Zhukov began to push them off the roads, compel them to accept battle in swamps. The orderly retreat had been turned into flight. Heavy equipment was left behind. Supply trains clogged up the roads...
...Assistant Secretary, Johnson notably worked to promote safety in commercial aviation. In 1937 he blocked a projected transatlantic air race to Paris, as a reckless "stunt." He helped push through Congress the Merchant Marine...
...Russian advance halts soon, as it ought to, the reason is more likely to be the necessity of establishing supply lines across the battered Ukraine so that the Red armies can push on again. This may take time, but meanwhile the Germans have another worry. They reported last week that a Red Army of 1,000,000 men stands ready in White Russia to drive across Poland...
Ballbearings gave the sport another push, but in the '90s enthusiasm shifted to bicycling. By 1910, however, the increase of figure skating made rollers more popular than ever. Chicago's Coliseum drew 7,000 persons on its opening night. In Washington, the predecessors of bureaucrats skated to work...