Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first big break came in midafternoon. Driven too hard in an effort to push the leader, Moss's Aston Martin quit, its gearbox a wreck. The race settled down to a duel between Hawthorn and Fangio. But after seven hours, Hawthorn's Jag began to lag. Desperately its mechs labored in the pits, but they took too long. Fangio got the lead for keeps, and during the final five hours gave a demonstration of an old master at work...
...total freedom was unwise. "Most college freshmen, at 17, aren't secure enough to tolerate the absence of intellectual con trols without anxiety," said Psychologist Weir. Added Caltech's George Beadle: "Isn't there a fallacy in complete freedom? Most of us have to have a push to get things done." M.I.T.'s Soderberg: "Since our students are relatively immature at the beginning of college, completely unrestricted freedom probably can't be applied until the third year...
...Carrying the orange silks of Leslie Combs's Spendthrift Farms on St. Patrick's Day was much too much for Nashua, the great bay colt gunning for Florida's $112,900 Gulfstream Park Handicap and a purse that would push his total earnings past Citation's alltime record of $1,085,760. Brookmeade Stable's pace-setting Sailor had more than enough to hold off Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Markus' Mielleux in the stretch drive. Third: Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Find. Nashua, under top weight of 129 Ibs. was never in contention...
...month-long rise, Wall Street's bounding bull market passed a notable milestone last week. As the week began, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average drove beyond the 500 mark for the first time in history. Yet the record stood only overnight. Confident investors continued to push stock up day after day. By week's end Dow-Jones industrials stood at 507.60, up 9.76 points for the week...
...push the idea still further, the renters have invented a dozen new schemes. Hertz, which has 227 rental facilities at airports, recently made the same deal with 17 major U.S. and Canadian railroads. The company has also made an agreement with the Diners' Club to charge car rentals. And to accommodate overseas travelers, Hertz last week set up an international division that will handle reservations, obtain international drivers' permits and border-crossing documents for customers...