Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Antitank Minefields. The Reds use less barbed wire and fewer mines and trip flares than the Eighth Army, probably because they have less. However, allied tanks which now & then push out on raids have run into heavy antitank minefields. Communist armor has recently begun to reappear on roads leading to the front. In the past two months, more than 30 enemy tanks have been destroyed, some 20 more damaged...
Then Editor Crawford bumps off his wife.* Despite all he can do to cover his trail without arousing suspicion, it is Newshawk Derek's brilliant hunches and painstaking detective work that finally expose Crawford on his own gaudy front page-and push newsstand sales higher than ever...
...Dart. Airplanes with conventional wings have been known to run into trouble at high speeds. Near the sonic barrier, the turbulent air shoved aside by wings and fuselage offers so much resistance that to go still faster requires extravagant power. Given that power, some straight-winged planes do push through into supersonic flight, e.g., Bell's rocket-powered X-1 (TIME, April 18, 1949). But there are tense moments while they pass through disturbed...
...only does Frederic March, who plays Willy Loman, talk too much, he talks too loudly. Instead of a disillusioned, broken man, Willy Loman sometimes seems merely a drunk one. Mildred Dunnock, as Willy's wife, is much better. She is able to push through the wordy speeches to show a tired, loving woman who is never really intelligent, but always loyal to her husband...
...plot, but with the help of some amusing dialogue, Nightclub Comic Danny Thomas puts remarkable warmth into a portrait of Kahn. The songwriter is pictured as an earnest craftsman of simple tastes, shy beneath a brash surface, who needed, resented and forgave his wife's constant efforts to push him forward. Actor Thomas' performance won him a four-year Warner contract before the picture's release...