Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ITALIAN MOTORSCOOTERS are making big push into U.S. markets. Two biggest sellers, Lambretta and Vespa, expect to sell 32,500 scooters (around $350-$400) in U.S. this year...
...announcing the formation of the committee, Pusey said that "the Harvard Corporation has decided that the next few years should see an intense effort on the part of the administration, faculty, alumni, and friends of Harvard to push forward the College...
Good Sense. Actually he had; Manjiro was convinced that Japan must open her doors and adopt Western civilization. He rose rapidly to a position where he could help push open the door-he became a teacher of navigation and English, designed whaling ships built on American lines, became the government's best authority on things American. His book, A Short Cut to English Conversation, became Japan's standard work on the subject. When missions were sent to Europe and to the U.S., Manjiro went along as interpreter and authority on the West. When he retired, he was financially...
...talk business. The deal: how to muscle into the thriving Chicago Restaurant Association and take control of it. Said James Weinberg to Paul ("Needle Nose") Labriola: "We'll have to kill Teitelbaum, but we don't want a big uproar in the papers. We'll push him out of his office window. He's in income-tax trouble, and everybody will think it was suicide...
Spelunkers, outfitted with mountaineering and diving equipment, delving ever deeper into the earth (unofficial world-record descent: a depth of 3,232 ft. into France's Gouffre Berger cave near Grenoble), are pushing back the last frontier. But fast as they push, the awesome unknown seems to recede before them. What is known about caves bows before the murk that is not known about them...