Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four laps later Britain's Stirling Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn somehow escaped uninjured from a three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...
FREE TRADE PLAN of President Eisenhower for U.S. to join Organization for Trade Cooperation stands no chance of passage this year. Support is dwindling in Congress, and President would have to wage tremendous battle to push bill through, gives no indication he intends...
...player on short rations, seemed the last man in the world to repair it. To everyone's surprise, he promptly staged one of the most skillful displays of dosaggio (division of offices among rival factions) in postwar Italian history, not only revived the coalition but even managed to push through Parliament a series of overdue measures...
Only the hammer figures to be a push-over for the Crimson, since the varsity's Pete Harpel and John DuMoulin reign supreme in the league...
John Jay Hopkins, a handsome, debonair son of a Presbyterian minister, provided the push and brilliance that built General Dynamics Corp. (1956 sales: $1 billion) into one of the postwar era's biggest industrial combines. A lawyer, California-born John Hopkins joined Electric Boat, predecessor of General Dynamics, as a director in 1937, engineered the acquisition of Canadair Ltd., a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company, and then took over major corporations-manufacturing everything from telephone equipment to airplanes-until he had made the new complex the seventh largest defense contractor to the U.S. Government...