Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winding roads. Wearing a Panama hat and carrying binoculars, he studied the terrain from Big Round Top and a knoll overlooking the field across which Pickett's Virginians had made their charge. Said Artilleryman Truman: Pickett's men might have broken through with one more push. Then the son of Missouri Confederates added: We may all thank God that they didn't. That would have been the end of the Union...
...just throw it in your goddam living room") and a paper for municipal employes. He had been a salaryless park commissioner under Mayor Angelo Rossi; Lapham did not reappoint him. More recently Budde had tried to start a "Dimes for Manila" drive; Lapham had declined to push it. Perky Mr. Budde reacted with the fury of a pinto with a burr under its tail. He circulated a petition for a vote to boot out such a graceless officeholder...
Another National Socialist, grey, diminutive Jaroslav Stransky, was awarded the important Education Ministry, formerly held by the Reds. An ex-professor of criminal law and a newspaper editor with iron nerves, he was unlikely to let the Communists push him around. To illustrate the Stransky calm, friends tell how he took the fall of Paris in 1940. During the mad scramble of flight, he went for a quiet stroll along the Champs-Elysées, where he ran into the well-known Czech pianist, Rudolf Firkusny. Stransky said he had wanted to ask Firkusny's advice on a problem...
...hatching pants" and thought he would bring forth a small ostrich in 25 days. Newark had a "pants burglar," who came in through windows like a wraith, left a penny on the floor for his victims. In Ellensburg, Wash, an ex-cowpuncher named Larry Hightower was preparing to push a wheelbarrow around the world...
Protect a Monopoly? If the proposals stick, most of the lines can stay in business only by trying to get a franchise as a scheduled line. Few had the cash or time to push an application through CAB over the objections of established lines. The cargo business, the new lines grumbled bitterly, would now go to the regularly scheduled lines...