Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cousy is the chief magician in Holy Cross' crowd-pleasing give-and-go, behind-the-back pass system. And his soft, tantalizing push shot is the most dangerous single weapon in the Crusader arsenal. It helped the Cross win the NCAA title two years ago, and just missed upsetting Kentucky in the same tourney last winter...
...hearings were merely staged so businessmen could "rationalize why taxes shouldn't be increased." He was in favor of an excess profits tax, and he has a good chance to head the Joint Committee on the Economic Report in the next Congress, a strategic spot from which to push such...
Along San Francisco's Grant Avenue, Manhattan's Fifth, Minneapolis' Nicollet Avenue, Dallas' Main Street, last-minute Christmas shoppers jostled and shoved. But sometimes they forgot to push, and pressed like moths to the lighted store windows, lost in synthetic wonderlands behind the glass...
...woman with the lovely face is screaming. Her dark eyes are luminous with horror. She seems to be hanging perilously to the very edge of a cliff, while far below is a dizzying view of the pounding ocean. Somebody is trying to push...
...Guggenheim centers will not build bigger & better jet engines, nor even try to. Their job will be to push into unknown regions where the jet engineers of the future may want to follow. One project at Princeton will be the study of air behavior at "hypersonic" speeds-above Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound). When wind tunnels are forced to this speed, and a few of them can be, they hit a fantastic difficulty. The air expands and gets so cold that its oxygen and nitrogen condense into liquids. Princeton will study this disturbing phenomenon...