Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Running Start. In Ada, Okla., three convicts sawed their way out of the local jail, were momentarily delayed when their getaway car refused to start, made it after some helpful cops gave them a push...
There remained only a faint possibility of compromise with the Russians. Paris had been the last chance for One Europe (a U.S. reporter had dubbed the Parrot Salon, where the Ministers met, the "Last Chance Saloon"). For those nations which wanted to take part, the U.S. could push the Marshall Plan ahead without Russia. Eastern European nations would be forced by Russia to stay out. If western and central Europe recovered more rapidly, eastern Europeans would not thank Russia for blocking their recovery. It would be years before Russia, recovering very slowly (see FOREIGN NEWS), could help her satellites. Meanwhile...
...against the disease is only a few million dollars off. Dr. Cassius J. Van Slyke, chief of the PHS research grants division, thinks that $6,000,000 a year for research (instead of the present $500,000) would solve the problem within a few years. Says he: one big push would...
Last week Zurich was agog over the latest miracle man. Nightly at the Corso, the city's largest music hall, a 35-year-old Dutchman named Mirin Dajo stood stoically while an assistant seemed to push swords and spears through his chest. "I am no artist," Dajo said, "but a prophet. If you believe in God, your will can dominate your body. People wouldn't believe me if I started to talk. But after seeing my invulnerability they will." The act was a great success. So many people fainted that waiters demanded payment of checks before each performance...
...power guided missiles, at least until atomic propulsion is perfected. Best known is the familiar turbojet. A compressor draws air through the engine's nose. Burning fuel heats and expands it. The hot blast roars out the tail at over 1,000 miles an hour, giving a mighty push. Before the gases reach the open, they spin a turbine, which powers the compressor...