Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abraham slipped through the front lines and joined the Russian army. "I want to fight Germans," he said. After training only twelve days, Abraham was up in the front line for the first Russian big push toward Kharkov. In the Russian retreat to Stalingrad, he was wounded by an exploding land mine. When he rejoined his unit, it was for Zhukov's march to Berlin. The Russians sent him to the Potsdam officers' school...
...Cries. Hours before the wedding, Romans by the thousands began to flock to the church. Unable to enter, they formed a solid, screaming mass from the Colosseum to Piazza Venezia. Invited guests had to push their way through sweating hordes, and became rumpled, bruised and angry. U.S. Ambassador James Clement Dunn nearly lost his coat. One man's finger was broken. Several women fainted...
...looker looks, even makes the colors take on varying hues. "You see I want my inventions to act, to lose their identity. What I expect from my colors and forms is that they do something they don't want to do themselves. For instance, I want to push a green so it looks red." Isn't that a rather experimental approach? "Yes, all my work is experimental...
...rapid a push toward reform on the part of the national government, involving dogmatic policy directives, has resulted in killing democratic methods...
...paratroopers for a practice jump. A flock of starlings, startled from the trees, swept across its nose. They were drawn in by the thrashing propellers. The carburetor air intakes of both engines suddenly became choked with dead birds, the engines faltered. Pilot Robert Kilpatrick shouted to a crewman to push the jump bell...