Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whittling of empire or sag in sterling seems able to weaken the national virus that makes Britons crave distant and sometimes eccentric adventure. Following a long line from Captain Bligh to Sir Francis Chichester, countless modern Englishmen still seek out high mountains or arctic wastes, race over deserts, relentlessly push through tropical jungles. The latest of that intrepid breed-and Britain's new nautical hero -tottered ashore at Portsmouth last week from the tubby 36-ft. yawl in which he had circled the globe alone. Seagoing Greengrocer Alec Rose, 59, declared: "This bug gets into one's blood...
Imaginative scientists have proposed that powerful laser beams (which actually exert pressure on a surface) be used to push back into correct orbit satellites that have begun to fall toward earth. Others have gone beyond the early idea of a death ray and suggested that laser beams may eventually be powerful enough to provide the ultimate defensive weapon against missiles. Powerful laser beams, they predict, might well make iCBMs obsolete. Focused on an incoming missile, their light would generate enough heat to melt it into uselessness...
...Pounders Association: for having a smooth, tough, nylon point that won't push down." And you've got three trumpets going, and an announcer comes back in and says, "Flair even looks like a better way to write." We would play it very straight. Very pompous. Like Robert Morley's voice when he says these words. You get a kind of electricity between the silliness...
Total consumer credit in the U.S., reported the Federal Reserve Board last week, reached a record $100.3 billion at the end of May-an average debt of almost $500 for every man, woman and child. At least part of the push to the new record can be attributed to the fact that more and more commercial banks, the leading sources of consumer credit, are augmenting their traditional personal-loan and automobile-financing activities by issuing all-purpose credit cards. Such cards, says an official of Boston's State Street Bank and Trust Co., are "what the public wants...
...matter whose machine he is using, the patient treating himself at home (two or three treatments a week are necessary) must replace dialysate salts and components of the inner, sterile unit. These push annual maintenance up to $1,800 or $2,000, and twice-weekly blood analyses amount to just as much...