Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bluntly and blatantly they push their virulent propaganda under the very noses of the defense workers are farm laborers. They preach defeatism, racial hatred, and Anglophobism. Some even urge that we stop fighting right away and let the Axis keep what it has won. Others attempt to whitewash Axis aggressions in China and Europe by arguing that Anglo-American Jewish imperialism made them necessary...
...result of this maneuver was in doubt at week's end (the German High Command called the report of the encirclement "plain nonsense"). Elsewhere the Red Army's anniversary push met stiffening resistance. A second Russian pincer, laid around Dorogobuzh in the central sector, had so far failed to close on another Nazi Army. In "a southern sector" Russia conceded a German wedge of 24 square miles into the Russian line...
Snowed under by a closing hurry of one-handed tallies, the Freshman cagers bowed to fast and accurate Dartmouth five last night, 61-47. The uncanny accuracy of the Green in their pet right-handed shots provided the push which dealt the Yardlings their third loss of the current campaign...
...medieval manuscripts fill a well lit, spacious Exhibition Room, so arranged as to illustrate the spread of printing across Europe. On the other side of the Lobby is the Reading Room, open only to students. From here a ramp leads into the heart of Widener's stacks, but a push-button at the librarian's desk can shut the bridge off from ineligibles. Behind the librarian a book-elevator goes down the stacks...
Since 1913, research in tropical diseases has been given a great push by the cooperative efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation, which has spent over $70,000,000 in 30 years. Most important diseases on which the Rockefeller Foundation and the Army are concentrating...