Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., with a hand from his brother Elliott, gave the Eisenhower band wagon a family push. Said young Franklin: "The most serious concern of the people of the U.S. is to elect as President ... a man who will not only have a united party behind him, but also will be capable of securing the unity of our country. . . . The American people have a right to call the General back into active public service...
...room, has his bottle of ale sent up, apparently enjoying and certainly inviting hostility. When asked by a Manhattan newspaperman (a man he had known for 20 years) what made him prefer Johnny Pesky at third base and Vern Stephens at shortstop, McCarthy snapped: "I just pushed a button and they came out that way." Marse Joe has been called a push-button manager by sportwriters-and dislikes it as strongly as the late John McGraw resented being called "Muggsy...
Though its use has increased fourfold in the last decade, aluminum is still far from its peak of usefulness. To push it toward the peak, Aluminum Co. of America, which produces nearly half of all U.S. aluminum, last week offered U.S. industry a shining example of how to use it as an all-purpose metal...
Every one of these nonmilitary fights has, however, a military meaning. If the U.S. loses enough of them, it will get into a military position which the Communist states can push over without much risk to themselves...
...Russian walkout was likely to be a great deal more than that. It had been planned, for Sokolovsky's parting message was carefully typed in advance. It heralded the final breakup of four-power administration in Germany, and presumably a long-expected Russian drive to push the Americans out of Berlin...