Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor committee, in voting out the bill that he called "watered down," had marched uphill into the muzzles of Big Labor's biggest guns in one of the 86th Congress' bloodiest unsung battles. And it was Charlie Halleck himself who had provided six extra votes to push them over...
...Negroes and Jews, resigned last week amidst public clamor for his singed scalp. Then the club's governors were moved to announce: "It is the policy of the club to consider and accept members without regard to race, creed or color." But Dr. Bunche had no plans to push Ralph Jr. through the West Side's newly opened door. He had amply proved his point. "This has not been a pleasant experience, and I'm glad it is over," said Bunche Sr. "In this community, happily, bigotry cannot long stand the heat of public exposure...
...public experiments in setting up ungraded classes and grouping children according to ability. Bellevue was one of the first cities in the far West to provide foreign-language experience in the elementary grades (French, Spanish, German). Bellevue also cut grade and age barriers to encourage able youngsters to push ahead for advanced work in languages, music, mathematics. Such a pushing program needed a keen staff and close community support. A brush-topped joiner and prizefight buff, Brain got both. "His ability to hire and keep good personnel has given Bellevue the pick of applicants," says Bellevue's school-board...
Built-in Disposal. Last month, landed by a bush pilot on a glacier at 7,000 ft., the four began their long push-the kind of adventure that pales a plains dweller. At 12,500 ft., they labored nine hours to hack 7-by-7-ft. platform from a 45° ice slope, wryly called it Concentration Camp, complete, as one climber noted, "with a handy garbage disposal - a 1,600-ft. drop." Ahead lay two deadly perils: a pair of giant, swelling domes of blue ice that left them as exposed to the fickle Alaskan weather as flies...
...just below that of the reactor, expands enormously, and blows out of the nozzle in a high-speed jet. Hydrogen is essential because its molecules are the smallest known, and the smaller the molecules in a gas jet the bigger its propulsive push...