Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hammond's win in the fly, after nearly coming off a sick bed to do so, pointed up a magnificent team display. Trailing for most of the race, the varsity captain drove with a tremendous push for the final lap to pass Baker short of the finish...
...More Queens. In the post-World War II heyday, when everything on television was new and attractive, pro wrestling boomed. Desperate for new acts, new gimmicks, promoters began to push such gaudy huskies as "Gorgeous George," a marcelled, peroxide blond who made the sham slaughter seem even more ridiculous by his coy shenanigans in the ring and out. "The queens are passe now," says Columnist Jimmy Cannon, but wrestlers are still getting away with their hammy histrionics, still faking pain, anguish and angry violence with steady success...
...earth's mantle (the 1,800-mile layer below the crust) may not be as plastic as has been thought. It may have mechanical strength, like brickwork, that keeps the earth out of shape. Another possibility: the bulges are supported by slow currents in the mantle, which push up the surface like massive bubbles in a spring...
...woman driver is flagged by a stalled motorist, who asks for a push. "You'll have to get up to 35 miles an hour to get me started," he says. The lady driver backs off, guns, rams his car at 35 m.p.h...
...merging the Ferguson and Massey-Harris distribution systems, which often competed with each other, into the new Massey-Ferguson Ltd. He put in tight inventory controls, raised salaries and bonuses of salesmen and branch managers to give them more incentive, brought in a crack young management team to push sales...