Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to drive the North Vietnamese out of it. Five Marine battalions struck from the south toward their own besieged base of Con Thien. A South Vietnamese task force roared northward up Route 1 all the way to the river border, then divided and turned back to push the enemy southward. Due north of Con Thien, a Marine battalion helicoptered into the DMZ to hammer the North Vietnamese toward the Marines moving north. And in a spectacular amphibious and helicopter assault, two more Marine battalions scythed in from the South China Sea. Waiting to do battle were two North Vietnamese...
Some firms also figure that the rising federal deficit will force the Government to pre-empt borrowable funds later in the year. Indeed, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler admitted to Congress last week that falling corporate tax revenues and climbing Pentagon spending will push this year's deficit to $11 billion, or $1.3 billion more than the Administration forecast only four months ago. Fowler also predicted that the red ink might soar to an inflationary $24 billion in election year 1968 if war costs continue to escalate or if Congress fails to raise taxes. Accordingly, Fowler asked...
Magraw said before the committee met, "The push for the Friday extension [in the Fall] was a slick, behind-the scenes affair, low-key and rational." He thought that the Palazzo movement was "just the opposite," cramping the committee's style. "It's not that I like it that way," the HUC head said later. "That is just the way the Masters work. It's regrettable, but that is the way we have to approach this thing to get changes...
...proposal]." But his arguments didn't work on the other Masters. Even the more liberal ones decided this was not a time to make a case of it. One of them said, "There was just no chance for the proposal at the meeting and there was no reason to push it then." Both that unnamed Master and Chalmers commented that there would definitely be changes sometime in the future, perhaps even the elimination of parietals...
...Viet Cong were captured in the Mekong Delta region and they were questioned by intelligence officers and they wouldn't talk. So they took them up in a helicopter--all six of them--and then opened the door and asked them again. They still wouldn't answer. Then they pushed them out, one by one. They'd push one out and then ask the next "will you answer?" and they go a little higher or lower and they still won't answer so they pushed another one out until all six were gone...