Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been more concerned about Joe's case than Swedish-born Ragnar Nelson, a dapper, bow-tied Republican assemblyman who sold insurance on the side. "Rags" Nelson sponsored Joe's bill in the legislature, helped push it through both houses...
...Little Push. But last week Joe was suddenly back in the news. Sun & Times Reporter James McGuire (who had helped clear Joe back in 1945) had got a hot tip. The tip: Joe had turned over $5,000 of the $24,000 to Rags Nelson...
...small, dingy bar. As they sipped their drinks, said Joe, Nelson remarked casually: "You know this is going to cost you $5,000." Joe was dumbfounded. Said Nelson: "It's worth the money. You know I did a lot of work for you. I had to push a little here, and push a little there, and make a few promises." Twelve years in jail had taught Joe the habit of not asking questions. He said...
...maneuvering (up & down, right & left) a German V-2 rocket in flight. It was the most important advance in guided-missile technique the armed services had publicly admitted since the war's end. It was also a step-but only a step-along the road to a push-button...
...Chileans had it easiest. Their shortend stretch-204 miles out of a total of 559-rises gently from the sea through nitrate fields to the border at Socompa. But the Argentines had to push up through the barren, eroded land that the early Spaniards called "the country of desperation and death." Through the red-rock canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter...