Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress neared the end of the long push on the nation's spending program for fiscal 1951, a level Southern voice echoed through the House's chamber. It was an echo which would haunt every home, farm and business in the nation. Lean,, black-browed Congressman George Mahon of Colorado City, Texas, was telling his colleagues last week that they had only begun to spend the people's money...
...University's Far Eastern scholars unanimously favored extension of the U.N. military campaign beyond the 38th parallel. Reischauer put the issue plainly. "The only conceivable military tactic," he said, "is to push on... in fact, if we stopped, few Asiatics would understand...
...going again. In the bloody battle for their first ridge (see box), the Marines suffered casualties which made their ordeal of the previous week seem a picnic by contrast. But the Marines won the ridge, and after that the enemy broke under ferocious air strafing. The first powerful push of the infantry task force under General Church carried three miles and almost cut the Red bridgehead in two. Great swarms of Reds began trying to get back across the river by any possible means: on rafts, over the girders of demolished bridges, by wading, by swimming. The angry U.S. planes...
...painter, De Chirico long ago lost his punch; as a peddler, he still has plenty of push. In June, the superannuated master proved it with an eye-catching ad for Fiat automobiles (TIME, July 3). Last week he was again honking his own horn at a conservative sideshow to Venice's vast international roundup of modern art, the "Biennale" (TIME, June...
...bedded down among his fellow reporters on the floor of an old house. Shortly after, he dashed out into the living room. "There's a woman in there," he gasped. "There was one fellow kept rolling over in his sleep next to me. I gave him a good push and I found out it wasn...