Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably will. The snow is transmuted now, no longer white and crystaline but tough and tenacious, resistant to rain and sunlight alike. It will lie dormant, waiting for that last clear shot at the springs of a passing car. And the frantic garagemen will push ahead with their car removal, racing the phantom plows, never realizing for a minute that God will take care of the snow...
...fine opportunity for the basketball team to end its ten-game losing streak will present itself tonight at the Blockhouse in the form of the Boston University squad. The Terriers, while not push-overs in any sense, are probably the weakest team the Crimson will face for the rest of the year...
...elite. In editorials supposedly written by Gómez himself, El Siglo echoed Bolívar's dictum that "elections are the scourge of all republics," and upheld the Liberator's aristocratic approach to politics. Said El Siglo: "If the law is abnormal or inconvenient, push it to one side . . . Retain elasticity . . . though procedure may not always be strictly legal. The letter kills; the spirit gives life...
...rocket flight in the Skyrocket, says Pilot Bridgeman, starts out peacefully enough. When the plane is dropped from its mother B-29 at 35,000 ft., there is a gentle sensation like going down in an elevator. When Bill "kicks on" his rocket motors, he feels a great push of acceleration but no sensation of speed. Below the speed of sound, the Skyrocket "flies like a little queen," responds sensitively to his lightest touch...
Swooping Plunge. In the thin, high air (probably close to 80.000 ft.), there is not much kickback in passing the speed of sound. The Skyrocket was designed to minimize transsonic buffeting, and the rockets push it quickly to high supersonic speed...