Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have different economic reasons for wanting the Chaco. To landlocked Bolivia it means a possible outlet to the sea. On the west Bolivia is only 75 miles from the Pacific but those 75 mountainous miles are owned by powerful, militaristic Chile. Bolivians think that they might be able to push ships through the unsqueezed sponge of the Pilcomayo down to the Paraguay and on to Buenos Aires and the Atlantic...
Cornered bears, fat with three years' profits, fought madly to cover their short positions. Badly squeezed, they howled loud & long. Once the rally was well under way their frantic buying helped pool managers to push stocks up & up. Outstanding leader of the advance was American Telephone & Telegraph, which soared from $70¼ a share to $114¼. U. S. Steel more than doubled its Depression low of $214-; many stocks tripled in value. Large orders from European money centres swelled the volume of U. S. buying, the dollar rose smartly...
...said to her girl friend: "I'll bet she's getting seasick." Then the girl friend got sick. Said Miss Reardon: "Pretty soon women all around me began to get up and go to the rail. And then they'd stay there and other people would push them aside. And one man got real sick and just leaned his head over, and then everybody started to do that. People were lying all around on chairs looking like they were dead...
...York's moths were snow-white linden moths (Ennomos subsignarius) of the measuring-worm or elm-span family (Geometridae). In the caterpillar stage they live on leaves, preferably elm and linden, and also like lettuce salad. Having but two pairs of prolegs. the worms push themselves with their hind legs until they are humped like a croquet wicket, then slide their front ends forward. Grown fat, they spin a thread, slide down it to the ground, snooze under fallen leaves. Early in July the moth emerges, seeks company, goes off whichever way the wind is blowing. Last week...
Over Phoenix. Ariz, at midnight the Akron circled for a time, adjusting her trim for the push over the mountains. She disgorged her two airplanes to fly on by themselves, lightening the airship's load by 6,000 Ib. and adding 2,000 ft. to her ceiling. Crossing Texas, Commander Rosendahl spurned Fort Worth and Dallas to fly over his mother's home at Cleburne. On the last leg from Parris Island the Akron averaged 75 knots, a record...