Word: pushed
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Some Catholics are diffident about this doctrine, but others push it to extremes. The leading U.S. extremist is a grey-haired, ex-Jesuit priest in Boston, Father Leonard Feeney; he insists that no one who is not a Catholic can get to heaven. When he refused to stop expounding this belief, he was suspended in 1949 from his functions as a priest by Boston's Archbishop Richard J. Gushing, and expelled from the Jesuit order. Since then, he and a small group of followers, known as the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, have continued to preach their...
Tremendous numbers of men with training in electronics are now being hired in aviation. In the age of push-button warfare which we are now approaching, these men must design the devices which seek out the enemy and guide the pilotless aircraft...
...Crimson led by three points until the last three minutes, when Nunziato went into the game. Then he scored on a push shot, and Reisner, who was second high for B.U. with 12, made a hook and a layup to put the Terriers ahead...
...When Napoleon conquered Spain Goya first curried favor with the victors, then commemorated their outrages with a series of compassionate etchings. Last week an exhibition of 81 of the master's works was on display in Richmond's lively Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, supplemented by a push-button movie on Goya's life and works...
...Push. More than half a million acres of fertile farmland were inundated in The Netherlands. The Dutch, who only two weeks ago had proudly renounced the need for any more U.S. economic aid, had been set back an estimated three years. Another 250,000 acres of farmland were flooded with salt water in England, and more than a million left homeless. But the worst North Sea storm in 250 years left in its wake, as well, some stirring sagas of heroism. One such was that of U.S. Airman 3rd Class Reis Leming, of Toppenish, Wash. Said one admiring Englishman last...