Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time, team B was advancing the ball against Jayvee opposition. They managed to push over five touchdowns, with Ralph Pope and Bob Burnett starring...
Vindicated by its scattered followers, the Guild leadership was ready to push on this week with scores of negotiations which have been dormant. Most important fronts: 1) the United Press, where the Guild began an intensive campaign to roll up a majority in the employe representation vote about to be conducted by the National Labor Relations Board: 2) the 95-year-old Brooklyn Eagle, where 305 editorial and business office Guildsmen are on strike in the first major test of Guild power in New York...
...days of fighting, the estimated 200,000 Chinese troops defending Shanghai held every ad vantage, drove Japanese troops back at several points, at one time actually forced a fleet of eight Japanese transports to seek safety farther down the river. Day after day, Japan's long-heralded Big Push was postponed, finally got under way at week's end, with small success. Although the Japanese struck on a wide front, apparently with all the force they could muster by air, from the water and on land, the Chinese held firm, lost 500 men to the enemy...
...cafes of Madrid, reporters now congregate to exchange news if any. There is news aplenty, but except for a pushover job, such as the taking of Santander, the correspondents are kept a good eagle's flight away. In the recent heavy fighting around Madrid and in the big push now under way in the Aragon front, both the Rightists and the Leftists were in agreement that correspondents were not wanted at the front. But 400 men. even under restraint, can gather considerable information and when pooled it generally provides an adequate account. Next problem...
...Gaylord, Mich., black bears have been invading the pig pen at a CCC camp. They push the pigs out of the way and greedily eat the food from their trough...