Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shambles. In the fourth inning, Yankee Outfielder Elston Howard tagged Newk for another homer, and the home-town stands belched an ugly chorus of boos as the big man sadly slouched off the field. First Baseman Bill Skowron reached Dodger Reliever Roger Craig for a grand-slam homer to push the final score to 9-0. All the while, Yankee Pitcher Johnny Kucks held the Dodgers to three hits, and the Yanks had won back their championship four games to three...
...burly, towering (6 ft. 6 in.) British yachtsman who founded (1916) the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., built seaplanes and fighters during World War I, developed Britain's first all-metal plane, pioneered in aircraft streamlining, won a knighthood (1942), later (March 1956) saw a Fairey Delta 2 jet push the world's official speed record for conventional planes to 1,132 m.p.h.; of a heart ailment; in London...
Cella's campaign, as he described it, is now getting ready for the "big push." The final days will be spent in an intensive series of house parties, talks to women's groups, and door-to-door handshaking...
FILTER-TIP BOOM, some 30% of all sales this year, will help push cigarette consumption to alltime record in 1956. After slumping to 368.7 billion smokes in 1954, during cancer scare, says Agriculture Department, consumption climbed back to 382.1 billion last year, will hit estimated 395 billion in 1956, some 900 million better than previous record...
There will be those who compare this latest loss with the one UMass handed the Crimson in 1954, 13 to 7, but on that day, an inspired squard caught a varsity team, more interested in the following week's game with Cornell, not concerned with some "push-overs" from Amherst, Mass...