Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice in a Row. It was typical of Ascari that he would push his car to the ragged edge trying to win Italy's classic Monza. Most men in his position would have played it safe. Streaking around tracks from Argentina to France, Ascari had already clinched the 1953 world championship by winning five of the ten Grand Prix races that count toward the point total. At Bern, Switzerland, he whipped his four-cylinder (180 h.p.) Ferrari around 1,300 curves in three hours to average 97.48 m.p.h.; in Belgium he was clocked at 112 m.p.h., in England...
...that is often bouncy and effective, although too frequently his overenthusiastic prose is merely bloated. But Augie is a bubbling, vivacious fellow who knows how to smile at the world-and laugh at himself, and despite its faults of narrative, style and taste, the story is good enough to push 38-year-old Saul Bellow to the forefront of the younger, postwar U.S. novelists...
...wits: some hunger marchers bought tickets to points beyond West Berlin, then dropped off the trains to collect their food. The Reds temporarily eased up, then put the ban back on. They seemed uncertain how to act: remembering the uprisings of June 17, they dared not push their people too hard. For what people would do to get those ten pounds of lard, dried beans, flour and canned milk was a measure of their desperation and dissatisfaction...
...fuels, metals and instruments for his second Five Year Plan, he seemed to have the better of the deal. But that did not disturb the Communists. For them, the treaty was a foot in the door of Latin American trade. Politically it was a good bargain; it just might push the door wide open for a procession of Soviet agents in technicians' clothing. Explained a member of the Soviet commission: "Obviously, technicians will be required for maintenance of our equipment. There are two possible solutions to this problem. Argentines can be sent to Russia for training...
...Munthe found Italy's idyllic Isle of Capri a perfect spot in which to get away from it all. Augustus' misanthropic successor Tiberius found the island's solitude so inspiring that he often invited tedious friends out to the imperial villa for the weekend, only to push them off a cliff as soon as they arrived. The only thing Capri lacked was a supply of fresh water. Rain water, collected in cisterns, had to suffice Augustus, Munthe and all Caprioti...