Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half way up a ridge near the town looking for two platoons of C company which we had lost. I heard the orders shouted for evacuation. I went back to the beach. There was an assault boat stuck, so I ran out to help push it off. A ricocheted bullet smacked me on the forehead, knocking me into the water. I couldn't see out of one eye. But the boat got away all right...
...week, wrote: "The men have spent themselves as if they were as worthless as the Jap occupation currency they found on the beachhead. It is impossible to say who deserves most credit. Certainly the command has been alert and tough. It has anticipated every Jap stroke, including the present push...
This experiment, if it succeeds, will make Stan Durwood the regular left tackle after alternating with Hibbard since the beginning of the season, and it would push Charley Gudaitis down to the "B" team...
...Most vivid, terrible scene I ever witnessed. Such peaks! Dug through worst jungle yet. . . . If I don't die tonite, I may push on along shore a way tomorrow-I don't know...
What prejudiced observers call the toughest thing this side of the trenches, the Naval R.O.T.C. conditioning program gets under way today on Soldiers Field with strength tests in chinning, push-ups, body lever, and standing broad jump...