Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terriers' aggressive first forward line broke the scoring ice when the game was only three minutes old, but then for the only time in the game the Crimson began to exhibit an offensive push. Burgy Ayres, second string center, scored an unassisted goal a minute and a half later, and Gordie McGrath, highscorer so far this season, added another to his record when he beat the Boston goalie on a fast breaking play. Demi Lloyd was credited with an assist...
...elected for Mussolini's Albanian fiasco was white-haired, crinkle-eyed Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Chief of the General Staff, universally recognized as Italy's sagest soldier. He had opposed the Greek venture. Germany's Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel is also said to have opposed the Pindus push, recommended instead a sudden naval encirclement with multiple landing parties, such as Germany sprang on Norway. Being obliged to cons jit Keitel last month, to be told how to retrieve his subordinates' botch of a campaign which he never approved, must have made the 68-year-old Marshal swallow...
After the war, Trader Livermore was hired to push Piggly Wiggly stock. He pushed it 52 points in a single day and cornered the market; the Stock Exchange had to set aside its rules and allow shorts five days to cover. In the 1925 wheat market ending with the Black Friday crash he bought grain in 5,000,000-bushel lots while the market was rising, turned bear at the top and sold 50,000,000 bushels short for an approximate profit of $10,000,000. Quietly sensing the end of a falling market in 1927, he bought Mexican Petroleum...
...Axis push into the Balkans which continues even with the temporary Italian set-back, the numerous agreements signed during the past few weeks with like minded or weaker states, the nightly bombings of enemy cities, and the increased Japanese pressure, on Indo China and the East Indies, certainly do not constitute a stalemate. This is movement, and movement on the whole favorable to the Axis Powers...
...most sensitive of any, at the station on Oak Ridge, Harvard, Mass., have been used by Dr. Lect to study the New England upper crust in collaberation with the Dominican Observatory, Ottawa, Williams College, Weston College, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By measurements of quake waves of both the "Push" and "Throb" variety, Dr. Lect has determined that the New England top layer consists of nine miles of hard granite...