Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dear old Sandringham," and during his wife's confinements, the King himself prepared and served her morning cup of tea. Mary, who was better schooled and sharper-witted than he, repaid his gruff affection by curbing his profanity (learned in the Royal Navy) and by teaching herself "to push the little balls around"-her phrase for the King's favorite game of billiards. In January 1936, the Queen wrote in the diary that her husband had kept each day for almost 56 years: "King George V was much distressed at the bad writing above, and begged...
...system" had been approved by the FCC in 1950, he recalled, but TV manufacturers seemed to want none of it, because they were waiting for RCA's long-heralded "compatible" system (whose color broadcasts could be seen in black & white on present sets). CBS, said Stanton, would not push its system: "I think we would be tilting at windmills...
Heave Ho! In San Francisco, when Floyd Ford's car got stuck in a rut, he and a friend got out to push, shoved it out of the rut and over a 75-ft. cliff...
...Saigon, Clark had a three-hour briefing by French Commander Raoul Salan and the Vietnamese chief of staff, Nguyen Van Hinh. Salan told him that all signs point to "a very violent Viet Minh push in Laos soon," the Communists apparently having given up for now their hope of driving the French out of the Hanoi delta. Clark also had a 25-minute chat and a few sips of dry champagne with Emperor Bao Dai. The general made a hit by remarking: "The French here are making really efficient use of arms we deliver to them, and surely...
...business itself, it was not only booming, but promised to stay that way. Many a prophet who had predicted that business would slip after midyear changed his mind, now saw a good second half. A touch of spring in the air gave retail sales a push to an estimated 3% to 7% higher than a year ago. The SEC estimated that, on the basis of a new survey, business expansion in 1953 would exceed the record $26.5 billion spent last year. And the Federal Reserve Board's latest survey of consumers' spending plans indicated that U.S. customers this...