Word: pusher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pedal Pusher. In Atlanta, during a test for a driver's license, Mrs. Maude Pierce, 42, stepped on the gas instead of the brake, cracked into a utility pole, smashed into a parked car, demolished her own, sent the test supervisor to the hospital with head and hip injuries...
...fabric and easily inflated by compressed air machines or by a regular tire pump. When deflated, the wing is small enough to fit in a car's trunk compartment. Inflated, the wing sits on posts above a 10-ft. wooden fuselage, is held in place by struts. A pusher-propeller, powered by a 65-h.p. engine, gives the plane a top speed of 45 m.p.h. The 550-lb. Flying Mattress is easy to fly. With no wind, it requires only a 100-yd. landing strip; in strong winds, it lands almost vertically. Already flight-tested by the Ministry...
...field. He can neither fashion the future nor alter the past. His only power lies in the immediate present, and every effort to extend it ends in failure and frustration . . . Malraux seems to resent it that man fails to qualify as God's private secretary or chief button-pusher for some nuclear Jove. There is some evidence that man is approaching the latter, but unfortunately the only button on the horizon is destructive. Doubtless some Malraux will push the damn thing to prove his importance ... I'm glad I don't have such an abnorMalraux...
...three overhead rotor blades. As Noll opened the throttle, the fuel in the pods began burning in small, roaring jet gusts, expelling the hot air, spinning the rotor and lifting the aircraft off the ground. At 4,000 ft., ready for forward flight, Noll switched on the small pusher propeller, sited between the twin tail booms, and kept the rotor windmilling to supply extra lift. Coming in to land, he first slowed, then cut off the pusher, gave the rotors full power over the landing site, and set the XV1 gently to ground on its skids...
...Petal Pusher. In St. Louis, Mail Order Florist John T. Southwell was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $1,600 after federal agents discovered that the "blue rose" which had grossed him $700,000 in 18 months was a common red rose which fades to a bluish color as it dies...