Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberties parades against Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City (1938), he met his match. Hays wanted Hague's police to jail him (to create an issue). Instead, a disobliging cop simply hustled him along the street. Hays "managed to blurt out: 'All right, as long as you push, I'll go.' " But there wasn't much fun in that. Hays came back a few days later to orate against Hague from the top of an automobile. It was no use. Mayor Hague was too smart to play...
Britons in general fell back on the hope that, even though Winston Churchill might override other men's criticism, he would not dismiss thoughts they might put in his head. But more Britons than ever before would hereafter push to separate Prime Minister Churchill from his Defense portfolio. This week the London Times was only one of a host of voices saying "The position of Minister of Defense is now a full-time...
...Stanton-Lazarsfeld program analyzer is a simple device. Subjects sit in comfortable chairs, hold a pair of push buttons in their hands, and listen to a pro gram. When they like what they hear, they push the right-hand button. When they don't like it, they push the left button. Each button is electrically connected with a pen which draws a continuous line on a moving paper tape pulled under it at a constant speed of approximately one inch every five seconds. When a button is pressed, an electric magnet jogs the pen a quarter of an inch...
...sparks like the tail of a comet. In London some experts predicted that rocket bombs may soon make dive-bombing obsolete. Reasons: 1) the new weapon's high potential accuracy, which enables planes to bomb with greater success from greater heights; 2) its greater penetrating power-the push of the rocket stream is added to the momentum given to the bomb by the onrushing plane...
...trying to beat the Mem Hall clock on their way to the meeting at New Lecture Hall. "Ha!" said Vag, and walked on down the path. "The little fat one on the end will never make it. Wait till we get him down on Soldiers Field; will he sweat! Push-ups. Ha!" With a grunt of superior satisfaction Vag felt himself settling back into the well known channels of college life. He'd learnt something from his three years...