Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alongside the giant transport planes, a Piper Cub looks like a gnat. A man can lift its tail with one hand, push it over with the other. On a fine summer's day, Cubs rise from the country's fields like a swarm of grasshoppers. Thousands of sportsmen, commuters, and joyriders use them for short hops between town and farm, home and hunting ground. Last week two young instructors from Maryland's College Park Airport proved that these flimsy air flivvers could also circle the world...
Beans & Whiskers. M. Schuman said he wanted a showdown; that he would push for "unconditional capitulation." The Cocos were already cringing. They asked a 1,500-franc payment for each striking worker to tide him over the Dec. 1 payday. Schuman refused...
...best that many an expert could argue was that the new policy would bring greater campesino cooperation. In that case, it would be possible to hold the line and perhaps push it back. Said B. T. Simms, the U.S. Agriculture Department official who has been directing the campaign: "We've got to push it back or it will push us back. Foot-&-mouth disease does not play a tie game...
...Eager to push forward with a plan for dividing Palestine, the United Nations has yet to offer an acceptable method of insuring the partition's success. The authors of the plan place their hope for peaceful government during the early life of the nascent states in an armed, locally recruited militia. In the event of an Arab uprising, any native constabulary would prove hopelessly inadequate to keep peace among the warring factions. With this in view, the U.N. cannot neglect the possibility of a concerted Arabian effort to crush the new Jewish state. By failing to provide an effective security...
...vice president of the Chicago & North Western Railway Co. Railroader Gray, whose late father was president of the Union Pacific, is a crack organizer who, as a red-tape-hating general in World War II, won the high respect of both Eisenhower and Omar Bradley for his ability to push rail lines into one side of a European town almost before German forces could retreat out the other...