Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rules for last week's contest gave Fernandez every opportunity to push his luck to the limit. Hungry for a supersonic record, race officials decided to give pilots their choice between air-to-air refueling and lugging underslung wing tanks...
Built-in Inflation. It remains to be seen how Bill Martin's current formula will affect the mixing bowl over the next critical months. A report by the Commerce Department and the Securities & Exchange Commission this week predicted that the money shortage-as intended -will force business to push some expansion plans over into 1957. But far from canceling major expansion plans, many businessmen argued that any possible savings in loan costs in the future would be more than offset by higher-priced labor and materials if they postponed construction. Said Arthur Longini, chief economist for the Chicago & Eastern...
COTTON SURPLUS, growing since 1951, will probably level off this year, says Agriculture Department. Despite slightly bigger crops, prospects are that heavier exports (double the 2,200,000 bales in 1955) and steady domestic use (9,200,000 bales) will push total consumption 25% ahead of last year, enough so that 1957 cotton carryover will be slightly less than last year's record 14.1 million bales...
...than 800 gals, a day, not much more than an enterprising moonshiner. After Tennessee went dry in 1909, the distillery first moved to St. Louis, later, during Prohibition, shut down completely for almost 20 years. Finally in 1938, five years after the repeal of Prohibition, Lem Motlow managed to push through a law in still-dry Tennessee, under which Jack Daniel's became the state's only legal distillery...
...know . . . But I cain't see Saul goin' to school wid white kids ... I cain't see me sittin' side o' Mistah Charles on the bus neitha . . I think they's plenty mo' feel the same way. I hope they don' push...