Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unruly convicts from other state prisons for twelve-month terms on the rock pile, a nearby granite quarry. From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (with three hours out for lunch and rest), under the eyes of hard-eyed guards armed with Winchesters and heavy sticks, they smash granite and push wheelbarrows. The discipline is as rough as the work. Five years ago 31 convicts staged a protest against both by slashing their heel tendons with razor blades...
...mile frontier between Burma and Communist China runs through some of the world's wildest country. In its southern reaches, the limestone mountains of the Shan States rise to almost 9,000 feet, and at its northern end, snowcapped Himalayan peaks push up to more than twice that height. At lower altitudes, an average annual rainfall of 200 inches produces thick jungle cut only by swift-running rivers and an occasional trail. Scattered through this wilderness is a confusing melange of primitive peoples-gentle Shans, timid Palaungs, and the warlike little Kachins who, under U.S. officers, harried the Japanese...
...modern London. Grimes hopes that its stones will be put aside, then reassembled in some suitable place. This is being done with the Temple of Mithras that was found not far from the blockhouses (TIME. Oct. 4, 1954). Its stones are waiting in a basement, carefully identified, while workers push construction of Bucklersbury House, a new business block. When it is finished, the temple will take shape again in the building's courtyard...
...like to tack downwind," says he. "We keep her footing that way." Whenever the wind shifted a few degrees. Geib jibed, kept running dead before the breeze. The skipper had only one complaint: "During the last leg, every time I took the helm, the wind would die." Unwilling to push their luck, his jovially mutinous crew kept him below for as long as possible...
...week's scrap did nothing else, it demon strated that he Still has plenty of sting left, even after the awesome sledgehammering he took from Rocky Marciano last September. Besides netting him a neat $51,975, the Parker fight served no tice that Archie Moore will be no push over when ex-Olympian Floyd Patterson, the hot young (21) pretender, fights him for the official world heavyweight title in September...