Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried away three sea anchors, washed a compass overboard, smashed the rigging, damaged the engine and soaked the cabins. Thinking of his family, Dr. Davis was tempted to turn back. But then he thought of his seafaring ancestors, who sailed these waters in canoes centuries ago. and decided to push...
...theme of the season is back to nature. Clothes that cling are quite the thing. If nature gave you nothing to cling to, new girdles and heavy belts that push protoplasm where it belongs are also available. In a burst of remarkable reason, designers have decided to cover this nude look with coats that bellow out from the shoulder in barrel or bell forms and wander vaguely down to a faltering stop somewhere between the hip and knee. A tight skirt carries on from there, giving the overall effect of a candle being snuffed with...
...days, Marine artillery and planes raked Siberia. Then, early last week, the Marines occupied "Bunker Hill," which is higher than Siberia and close to it. Since the U.S. position on Bunker made the Chinese position on Siberia unhealthy, the enemy spent the next five days and nights trying to push the leathernecks off the sandy, scrub-pine slopes of Bunker...
...live." Dr. Fisher, who will make two addresses during his visit, said part of his time would be spent boning up on the coronation rite for the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II next June. Also, though not as active a gardener as Bishop Sherrill, "I shall be ready to push the wheelbarrow as far as I may be able...
Sullivan forsook the law in 1904 when, outraged at the quackeries of patent medicines, he wrote a Collier's article that helped create a national furore, and along with a mighty push from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, forced Congress to pass...