Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Movements: Place hands under lowered chin and push up hard. At the same time resist with neck muscles to give the effect of lifting a heavy object. The text to go with it: "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips" (Psalm...
...infant begins its passage from the uterus, the doctor gently encourages the mother to push as hard as she is able to during contractions. "Many people with the first one don't know how to push," he explains. "You are not hurting?" "Not at all," says the resting patient. "It's hard work ... I find it jolly tiring . . . Oh, let's get on. I have another contraction...
...however, the tests can be taken before college, a factor which Leighton sees as an encouragement to students and schools to push preparatory work beyond conventional limits...
...producers to roll out a 1957 record of more than 148,000 new cars, up about 16% from the same week last year. Ward's Reports said Detroit production will ride at a near record for the first quarter largely because sales-happy Ford and Chrysler will push output 30% ahead of last year. On the other hand, motormakers are paring their stockpiles of steel, aluminum, glass, rubber and paint to normal minimums. Their steel-buying has fallen below their production ever since last July, is now down to a 20-to 30-day supply. As Republic Steel Sales...
Market letters earned a sour reputation for themselves in the 1920s and '30s-and have done little to redeem it. In those days, brokers used the letters to push sales of the securities they handled, loaded them with glib predictions and tips on questionable stocks. According to a 1933 survey by the Cowles Commission for economic research, 1928-32 forecasts of how certain stocks would perform were actually 4% less accurate than if the choices had been made at random from the list. Eleven years later a similar survey by the commission found that accuracy had improved hardly...