Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negroes of Push 'Em Clubs. Their reputed function: each member must take off one afternoon a week, spend it on the downtown streets jostling and pushing white folk...
...Under other circumstances we might have waited until the breach was widened. This time, however, the entire mass of our tanks was thrown into the breach. . . . Then, at once, they spread out behind the enemy lines. . . . Part of them reinforced our flanks; the main force continued to push forward to meet the tank forces of the First Ukrainian Front...
...farm. Later there will be a communal barn for cows which will graze on a communal pasture. But Father Urbain does not consider that collectivism: "It's the very opposite of that. It will make the people individualists, keep them from having to sit in the city and push buttons...
...Little Miss Bluebeard, Naughty Cinderella), was the new chanteuse of Manhattan's La Vie Parisienne nightclub. The fiftyish, Corsica-born brunette sang favorites new & old (old favorites: If You Could Care for Me, Let's Do It, Do it Again), described her hairdo as the American Push-"Poosh all my hair on a other side...
Equipped with bulldozer blades, tractors hack out advance landing fields (see cut), push roads through the jungle and-in the Solomons-one armored giant even buried a dozen Japs in a pillbox that unprotected troops had been unable to approach (TIME, Dec. 20). Crawler tractors cleared banks, helped ford and bridge the Volturno River in Italy. Besides construction work, new-type tractors drag heavy artillery at more than 30 m.p.h.; others nudge landing barges off beaches and (with power winches attached) do all kinds of fabulous lifting and pulling jobs...