Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard football squad went over the last big pre-season scrimmage hump yesterday afternoon in a 20 minute tiff with a stubborn Freshman squad. The Varsity managed to push across a touchdown in a series of seven plays but was forced to take to the air for the last nine yards of the way, Helman to Forte for the counter...
...Barrani the Italians halted to gather themselves for the push to Mersa Matrûh, where Cleopatra used to bathe in the blue sea waves. No sooner had the Italians settled down than the R. A. F. from the air and the Royal Navy from the sea began harassing them. Well acquainted with the lessons of Lawrence in Arabia and Allenby in Palestine was the British Commander, Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 57, who knows the Middle East like the knuckles on his own hand. He sent his men to work on the un-camouflaged Italian camps with...
...temple dancer, Saint Gandhi ordered his followers to obey laws and cooperate with the Government while he visited the British Viceroy to "seek permission to preach nonparticipation in war." Nonparticipation, he warned his followers, was no prelude to mass civil disobedience, but fearing that without some action to push Indian independence the masses would desert him, he compromised: "I don't want to order civil disobedience. I favor individual disobedience." The wily Saint knew that individual disobedience, lacking organization, would amount to nothing. The independence movement, he admitted, could be temporarily delayed...
...which he and Commissar Regler were riding. Says Novelist Ernest Hemingway in his flattering preface: it might have been better for Regler if he had been killed too. He survived, but a steel splinter so nearly bisected him that the doctor who dressed the wound was able to push his hand completely through Regler's body. Author Regler escaped from France just before the Nazi invasion, is now in Mexico...
...Japan's advance bases for the push-Formosa, which Japan won from China in 1895, and Hainan, which she grabbed early last year. But before these bases could become really effective, the Japanese would have to erase the British outpost of Hong Kong. This harbor, which has the unmatchable beauty of an intimate Rio de Janeiro, was to be the base of Britain's preliminary delaying action. Now, it is almost completely surrounded by Japanese land and naval positions. The British last summer revised their plans to resist there. Most of their revised plans at Hong Kong called...