Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flame-throwing infantryman presses a push-button switch to get the spark that ignites hydrogen near the nozzle. This acts as a pilot light, ignites the fuel oil emerging under pressure from nitrogen. Back of him are three tanks: a small one for gas pressure, a pair of larger ones for fuel...
...good will and men with schemes to push pondered last week the riddle of the bear that walks like a man. From the wintry fastness of the Russian plain, the bear had reached out to gash a friend. Moscow's Pravda, highest official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, detonated a seven-day wonder by accusing British "personalities" (or "officials": translations varied) of talking peace with Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...Vatutin's Big Push was showing signs of exhaustion. His men were tired, his supply routes long. By & large, he had traversed the belt of German flight; now he was coming up against defenses his canny opponent, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, had had ample time to build...
...that might be called "nonisolated individualism" as contrasted with "rugged individualism." Waring & Teller believe in reading books, and they swear particularly by the prewar yearbooks of the Department of Agriculture, which were authored largely by the remarkably clear and persuasive Gove Hambidge. Book learning has enabled Waring & Teller to push family agriculture into many profitable bypaths...
Many of the tanks at Vitebsk may have been shifted from the Kiev bulge, as earlier they had been rushed south to halt a Red push into the Dnieper bend. Now the Red command played its old, shrewd game of "dispersing punching." With the German strength in the Kiev bulge sapped to help other sectors, the Russians struck inside the bulge with all their strength...