Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next minute, without warning, the rain may be hurtling down, leaving no one in the streets except the cycle-drivers. Wearing only hats, shorts and wooden sandals, they seem not to mind the drenching as they push their armchair rickshas with their bicycles...
Declining Imports. Cant got its second big push in the mid-19th Century, when U.S. cons, doxies, hoboes and fingers stopped importing so much from abroad. Since then, U.S. cant has grown so rapidly that today it is "numerically larger than the British"-and still so wildly prolific that just before his book went to press, hardworking Lexicographer Partridge ordered a batch of addenda bound in to catch such sprouts, new to him, as winchell (a swindler's victim), boodled (loaded with cash), cooties' reveille (lights-out in the cells), hoochie-papping (stealing another man's girl...
Monnet listened to the objections with the tactful, judicial air of an architect aware that he can still learn something from other builders. The Dutch, the principal objectors, wanted the governments to have more of a check on the new body. Said they: "If you try to push governments into the corner and ignore them, you will find that they turn into a group of brooding animals." But even the Dutch wanted to avoid a one-power veto. A likely solution: only a two-thirds vote of the member nations could override Monnet's supranational authority...
Nonetheless, existing orders, if inadequate, had at least been sufficient to enable all the major U.S. airplane builders to maintain enough technicians, skilled workers and tools to be ready to start the push to full throttle whenever the Government gave the word...
...television industry expected, summer brought a slight dent in its selling boom. But television's biggest producer, Radio Corp. of America, last week decided that the off season was just the proper time to push its sales all the harder. As it brought out a new line of 18 models, priced $40 to $200 lower than its previous sets, RCA announced a whopping advertising program, estimated at $20 million. This week, in the Sunday editions of 40 U.S. newspapers with a combined circulation of 10,760,000, RCA will launch its campaign with 12-to 16-page inserts...