Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each team scored its runs, however, in ways that dramatized the sloppier aspects of the game. The Crimson attack featured 14 walks among five scattered hits; the varsity erupted for a rally of five free passes in the seventh inning to push across two runs...
...wrinkles out of the aluminum film and make it mirror smooth. After doing this job, the nitrogen escapes into the vacuum outside. O'Sullivan wants to get rid of it because the balloon may be punctured by a meteor, and a jet of gas escaping from it might push it off its regular orbit...
Another indication that consumers were growing cautious came from an FRB report that installment buying dipped $435 million in February. Much of the decline was due to badly slumping February auto sales, when poor weather kept buyers out of the showrooms. With the push of hard selling (see Autos), sales were on the rise in March. But new-car inventories of 887,000 were so high that carmakers were not planning to step up production. Ward's Reports counted March production at 357,000 cars, predicted the same rate through the April-June quarter...
...natural assist in closing down the country. The rebel chieftain has long delayed his big move in the hope of winning over enough of organized labor, still officially pro-Batista, to ensure the strike's success. But now he faces another problem: if he postpones the big push again, his Havana network, which must lead the strike, may be fatally weakened by mass arrests and killings...
Whether or not the plan actually results in another 100,000 new houses, it should at least give housing a solid push along its road to recovery. From last year's disappointing record of 990,000 starts, home building jumped in January to an annual rate of 1,030,000 starts, about 3% better than expected. Although storms and snow chilled the pace in February and March, builders point to a continuing uptrend in the South and West, expect the first sign of spring to thaw out a rush of weather-stalled starts...