Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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nerf (hot-rod jargon)-to push with another...
...named Terry Fiore, in her hands a rosary that had snapped under the strain. Bragg gleefully flung her over one broad shoulder like a bag of cement and started to dance again. When he had calmed down enough to be coherent, Bragg declared: "I don't want to push the Man Upstairs. All I want is a gold medal in the Olympics, and then Tarzan of the Apes in the movies...
...Russians are making a big push in defensive ground-to-air missiles; most Soviet industrial and nuclear sites are well protected, but (like everyone else) the Russians are troubled by a defense gap against low level attacks, and their missiles cannot yet reach above 60,000 ft., where the U-2 normally flew...
Suddenly, the Oldsmobile disintegrated into a thousand shreds of shrapnel, a blinding ball of flame, and a column of smoke 1,000 feet tall. Betancourt's car was hurled onto the center grass strip, and burst into flames. The President and his Minister managed to push open the left rear door and pull Mrs. Henriquez to safety. Badly burned, Chauffeur Valero and a presidential aide, Colonel Ramón Armas Peréz, tumbled out of the front seat...
...fired for about 160 seconds, then fell away while the Able-Star took over, firing for five minutes. Then it shut off its engine and coasted upward and around the earth for 18 more minutes. Over South America the engine blasted again for a few seconds, giving the final push needed to attain an orbit with an apogee of 570 miles and a perigee of 341 miles...