Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...files of the Luftwaffe seized at Berchtesgaden one of the "confidential" papers carefully stored away in a folder of its own was Bob Chapin's TIME map of "The Big Push...
...sweet bean soup, tea and souvenirs. An entertainment association advertised for 5,000 professional hostesses and 3,000 women entertainers, including dancers, waitresses and daruma geisha. As distinguished from real geisha, who excel at conversation, the daruma geisha are named after daruma dolls, which have round, weighted bases and push over easily...
This still left radio a studioful of George Fielding Eliots and H. V. Kal-tenborns, whose jobs were safe enough: radio intended to push out the smaller fry first, cut down on the number of news programs. Latest trend is to make the news painless. Mutual now has Marjorie and Royal Arch Gunnison, the husband-&-wife team who covered the Orient for the Christian Science Monitor, to chitchat the news on a show called Mr. & Mrs. Reporter (1 p.m., E.W.T.). ABC signed up the aging wonder boy Orson Welles. who wants to talk about Shirer's kind of subjects...
Pink-faced, burly Burl has been on location for eight weeks at Kanab, Utah. In a rumpled, tan coat, baggy pants, and a red bandana around his throat, he looks more like a studio hand than a new star. Now about to be given a big Hollywood push, he well remembers his last trip to Hollywood, fresh out of the Army. He got a runaround. Says he: "Boy, it sure beats all the way they throw jobs at you when you finally land a good one, and the way they hide jobs on you when you haven...
...Buick's Harlow H. Curtice, 52, who helped push Buick up to the top spot of G.M.'s middle-priced autos...