Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holding for what? Conceivably the Chinese were awaiting a further buildup of their forces before a major push. In the face of the Korean winter and the strength of the U.N. armies facing them, this seemed unlikely. A better guess was that the Chinese in North Korea were there to pin down supplies that might otherwise be used in Indo-China, and to extort political concessions from...
...Yardlings immediately punted, and Yale started another push. This one ended when John Tulenko intercepted a pass on his goal life. But on the very first play, the middle of the Crimson line folded, and Tex Hooten was nailed in the end zone for a safety...
Even the aspiring Yalie may not know the answer, but he soon finds out. He is going to Yale to become a Success. His undergraduate life is a four-year push to become a "wheel," to be socially acceptable, to approximate that archtype of merit, the Yale Man. Not that the Administration nurse this tradition: president and deans admit ruefully that Yale is a college of come-outers and go-getters and deplores the philosophy of "success for the sake of success." But the tradition is still there. A recent study of Yale society concluded, "Because the definition of success...
From what it learned from its contacts, Yale's officials concluded that the present system of selection by grades will stay in force until March when a coalition of Southerners and Midwesterners will push a Universal Military Training program through Congress. The probable term of service, the Yale experts think will be 18 months since that is the maximum period that the legislators are likely to vote...
Many of MacArthur's advance units were cut off and trapped; the main line was hastily drawn back and consolidated. Two hundred and eighty thousand U. N. troops are now tied down in the cautions push northward as winter sets...