Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zone is more or less north & south through Medjez-el-Bab." Last week the rains still lashed at Tunisia. Fresh troops relieved the living and replaced the dead. The Allies clung. Until they got heavy equipment, until fighter cover could be provided for them, they could not push ahead. Axis troops were not powerful enough to dislodge them. The situation on the ground was at a stalemate...
...That our Washington officials are informed that over 95% of the entire French population are anxiously awaiting the opportunity to help the final push following the opening of the second front...
...women fought their way toward the revolving door; the push of bodies jammed it. Near by was another door; it was locked tight. There were other exits, but few Cocoanut Grove patrons knew about them. The lights went out. There was nothing to see now except flame, smoke and weird moving torches that were men & women with clothing and hair afire...
Junk. In Middletown, Ind., when Carl Clinger's handsome new auto stalled on a railroad track, he got his old car, used it to push the new one off the track, got stuck halfway across, jumped just in time to watch a train smack both of them into smithereens. In Los Angeles, when the Homer Cliffords' auto stalled on a railroad track, confident Mrs. Clifford kept her seat while her husband tried to push the car off the track before a train arrived. She survived the impact...
...spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...