Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brown rolled back early in the second half as nice running by halfback Kessaris sparked a 64-yard push. Reserve fullback Ed Lawrence finally bulled for the second score at 4:13. Pendleton again converted...
Would Truman invite Ike to move in by offering him the Democratic nomination? It was a wild guess. But certainly Republicans-for-Ike seemed worse off, at the moment, for Ike's homecoming. Up to now, they had been able to push their bandwagon on the strength of confidential hints and wise looks brought back from Ike's headquarters in Marly. But now, as New York Timesman. Arthur Krock put it, the Sphinx had come to the Cave of the Winds. As Ike was leaving the White House, a reporter asked: "Have you given anyone authority...
While its words were no less warlike, and it was still adamant in demanding British evacuation, the Egyptian government was acting with more restraint. It had obviously given up the reckless notion that its sorry army could push the trim, entrenched and reinforced British forces out of Suez; it was talking now of a long and gradual siege to squeeze them out. Hatreds so swiftly stirred, and so swiftly tamped down, could easily stir again; no one on either side wore a hopeful, happy face. But the West was determined to go ahead-albeit slowly, and despite Egypt...
With the help of such come-ons, U.S. toy sellers hope to push sales well over half-billion mark this year, the highest ever. Among the huge assortment of new and ingenious toys are dolls that speak Spanish and French, dolls that say "Mama" when tilted one way and "Papa" when tilted the other, dolls that clap their hands, suck their thumbs, wet their pants ; dolls that sleep, smile or screw up their faces and bawl ("Hedy the Three-Faced Doll"). There are miniature race horses called "Phony Ponies," which are powered by Mexican jumping beans, cows that...
Secretly, Groggle resents modern woman as a parasite who leads a push-button life of leisure while he slaves over a hot desk. "Actually, every laborsaving device of the past century has added to women's work ... A man invents a vacuum cleaner and ... a co-conspirator popularizes Venetian blinds, so there will be something else for the vacuum cleaner to do in a jiffy. A man turns out a simple little mechanism to make melon balls, and it's no longer comme il faut to toss a plain hunk of melon into a fruit salad...