Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Craig, a blunt, direct-spoken politician who was governor at 43, did not bury the hatchet. In dispensing state patronage and favors, he ignored followers of Capehart and Jenner. In late December, before the governor had even taken office, Jenner warned: "George Craig will only push me so far." Soon, indeed. Craig encountered stronger resistance. A rebellious state senate, presided over by a Jenner man (and with a 4-to-i G.O.P. majority), took Craig's ambitious program and gave it a severe hacking...
Boeing, which had worked at fever pitch to push its sleek silver, yellow and brown plane into the air ahead of schedule, was stunned. But company engineers and officials could remember a far more serious accident that failed to stop another Boeing fledgling: on a test flight in 1935, Boeing's prototype B-17 Flying Fortress, which became the greatest European-theater bomber of World War II, crashed and burned...
...Push. In Milwaukee, charged with speeding 64 m.p.h. through city streets, Motorist Arthur Garrett was fined $50 despite his excuse: "Another car pushed...
...hurry, ambitious to "build a mighty industry like Russia's" (said Mao in 1953) faster than Russia did it, by imitating the Russian pattern and, if possible, avoiding Russia's mistakes. The first Five-Year Plan is Chinese Communism's big push. In ,its first year the successes that Communist propagandists claim are due chiefly to reaching top capacity in factories already built by their predecessors and by the Japanese in Manchuria. Now the conflict is really getting under...
...tension is brilliantly built by all hands. The script maintains the mood with a cold, mechanical finesse: each new scene thrusts out the one before with a brisk push-pull, click-click. Yet curiously, only one actor really seems to get his blood up in the contest. Holden, Douglas and Calhern are fine in their characterizations of U.S. businessmen. But as the "night-school C.P.A." who tries to charm, scheme, jostle and bluff his way to power, Fredric March is magnificent...