Word: pusher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been a zealous "pusher" of the program since that date, having distributed more than 60 of the booklets. Nevertheless, I am monumentally dismayed because all of the 60 recipients of the booklets have dropped the program, leaving me all alone at 28 toe touches, 27 setups, 39 liftings of the head and legs, 19 pushups, 500 runnings in place, and 50 deep knee-bends...
Pursue the opposite policy, advocating a scheme and expecting to gain credit by its adoption, and you may well succeed-just once." Reason: no one likes a pusher...
Straining for Second Wind. Racing to beat Wimpenny and his crew to the historic flight are two other British flying clubs. Southampton University aerodynamics students have built Sumpac, which has an 80-ft. wing span and also uses a pusher propeller. Their pilot is longdistance Runner Martin Hyman, who pedals in a low-slung cockpit while reclining on his back. Sumpac, which made its maiden flight one week before Puffin, is still given to ground loops and violent yaws that its pilot is unable to control...
Under the Baby. To the bureau, enforcement is the key to solving the narcotics problem. Some 46,000 known addicts illegally buy heroin in the U.S., many of them from pushers. The Chinese Communists wax rich by exporting large amounts of heroin to the free world, much of which ends up in the U.S. To combat the traffic in narcotics, the bureau's agents work under cover, infiltrate gangs, even act as couriers between criminals. Often they have to shoot it out with narcotics racketeers. They have to watch for dope in some of the most unlikely places-hidden...
...Dayton's Air Force Museum, the nation's first military pilot, retired Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, 80, took a nostalgic look at the 1909 Wright Flyer, then climbed aboard the open-air, pusher-propellered crate. With him was an old colleague, retired Lieut. General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, 83, who in 1910 made the first powered-aircraft flight in Japan, where he is renowned as "the grandfather of flight." "This is my ship," said Benny Foulois proudly, perhaps recalling a memorable day-March 2, 1910-when, as an Army lieutenant, he made his first take off, first solo, first...