Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chafing at a desk in Richmond, where he had been left by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson might have been the Wavell of Manassas I. He vainly tried to persuade Beauregard, Johnston and Davis, who were conducting a post-mortem on the battlefield, to push on after the retreating Federals...
Federal Union is an organization formed (in July 1939) for one purpose: to push Clarence Streit's plan for a union of 15 democracies, as laid out in his book, Union Now. Last week Federal Union had 60 U. S. chapters, 60 more being organized, was cooperating with similar organizations abroad. The British organization had 250 chapters, 10,000 members. U. S. Federal Unionists were winding up a $250,000 fund-raising drive, had 3,000 college-student and faculty members, were in the midst of a campaign to form Federal Union groups in labor unions. Outside such organized...
...times were not peaceful and neither Anthony Eden nor his Greek hosts were in a very poetical frame of mind. Adolf Hitler's great southeastern push had already shoved some 150,000 Nazi troops and 1,700 bombers down through Bulgaria to the very edges of Greece and Turkey, only 60 miles from Salonika and only 100 miles from the Dardanelles. Greece and Turkey had rushed troops to their Bulgarian borders (Greece an estimated force of 90,000). Anthony Eden had flown from Turkey to Greece to learn, among other things, whether that heroic nation would defy the oncoming...
...Hohen zollern and Magda Lupescu out of Spain. Since the ex-King and his plump Pompa dour fled from Rumania amid a hail of brickbats and the spat of lead against their armored train (TIME. Nov. 25), the Spanish Government has given them asylum but refused to let them push on to Portugal. "I am desperate!" chain-smoking Carol told a London Daily Express reporter. "If I do not get a favorable reply to my application to leave Spain tomorrow, I will go on a hunger strike!" Carol and Magda continued to eat heartily in the luxurious Andalusia Palace Hotel...
...Ousted with three other Committee members for "inability to discharge obligations," Comrade Litvinoff, an old revolutionary who had worked with Lenin on the early Communist Iskra (Spark), who once played the fence for money stolen in a train robbery by Comrade Stalin, who was the only moderate to push his way to the top through the ranks of rabid 100 percenters...