Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea-were in North Korea almost everywhere along the 110-mile front. Enemy resistance faded in the west but stiffened in the center, in front of the Communists' "iron triangle" (Hwachon-Chorwon-Yonchon), where the main body of their forces was believed to be poised for the big push. At one point, Chinese holed up in eight enormous bunkers drove off repeated U.S. attacks with mortars, machine guns, rifle fire and grenades...
...electronic gadgets may be ticketed for a specific contractor. But Wilson still has not made up his mind whether CMP will cover all materials, both for civilian goods and arms, or just for arms. (Prospects are that CMP will just cover armament production.) By such tight controls, Wilson will push military production to the point where it will take 20% of the gross national product by 1953, compared to 8% now, thus bring many a civilian-goods shortage...
...Videodex reported that 69.7% of New York's sets were turned on-more than twice as many as during a weekday World Series ball game last year. Brooklyn's Red Cross chapter had to ask Senator Estes Kefauver to urge its women workers to go out and push a fund-raising campaign drive instead of sitting home watching...
...Salle came forward with a well-timed proposal for a 30-day price freeze to let OPS study the price situation. Valentine vetoed it. With that slight push Economic Stabilizer Valentine fell and Price Boss Di Salle's promoter, Eric Johnston, moved in. It was Di Salles first fight in Washington, and he came of it without a bead of sweat on his brow. He let nothing ruffle him. "You know how it is here," he said. "We get a crisis every 20 minutes. But the thing that makes it bearable is this...
Merk, however, showed up at the usual hour of 9 a.m. for his class in the History of the Westward Movement. On hand were two or three startled students who had managed through combined effort to push a path across the snow-clogged Yard to the classroom...