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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simply & Forever. Fortunately, when it is his turn at bat, Ted is usually able to push all such pessimistic reflections well back in his head, leaving him in just the right state of mental tension and physical relaxation to give close attention to what the pitcher is throwing him. In St. Petersburg, Fla. last week he showed the World Champion New York Yankees just how this delicate adjustment of worry and ease is supposed to work. It was the last of five grapefruit-circuit games between the Yankees and the Sox; each team had won two games. In the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Competitive Instinct | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...week's end the Cominform's offensive seemed well slowed down. "Western democracy," commented Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is proving efficient." But Mario Scelba knew that it was probably only the first, probing phase of igso's big Red push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: To the Barricades! | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

From the acres of advertisements used to push these products, FTC picked such claims as these for Anahist: "New Miracle Drug stops cold symptoms in a single day"; "Now say Goodbye to colds with Anahist"; "Prevents sneezing, coughing and running noses." For Resistab: "Kills colds in one day"; ".. . To guard my family against colds." For Kriptin: "Kill a cold at the very start-kill it completely-not in days but in hours"; "No more sneezing -stopped-up nose-aches and pains-no more miserable days in bed trying to 'outlast' a cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No More Sneezing . . . | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...fresh from "the grogshops and other sinks of iniquity in the rough frontier river town of St. Louis" helped fill the quota, and on April 3, 1823, a year after the ad appeared, Ashley's "enterprising young men" hit the trail. The duties of the new hands: to push their wav to the mouth of the Yellowstone River, erect a fortified trading post there and trap beaver in the surrounding country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beaver Era | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...fashioned enough to care chiefly for good books, but in an industry increasingly geared to "the big pitch" they are a thin remnant. One of the best of them, Maxwell Perkins, died three years ago after a legendary 37-year career with Scribner in which he discovered or helped push to fame such men as Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Marquand and Thomas Wolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Midwife | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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