Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grandmother's. I told young Paula to pack up whatever of her clothes she could find among the wreckage and push off to her grandmother's place at Puddleston by herself and I told Kit to take the nipper to my mother's at Ashmont. She did and I pitched in on the job of cleaning up the wreckage . . . some of the lads from the shop came to give a hand...
Sirs: The competency of its construction, its style and technique-all, it seemed to me, was precision stuff. It exemplified just what I think George Ade meant when, years ago, he slipped a bit of seasoned advice to an aspiring youngster: "If it is your intention to push your way through life with a pencil you must first forget your college English and learn how not to write like Lord Macaulay." ARNOLD GERSTELL Philadelphia...
...President likes to travel fast, even has his valet push his wheel chair rapidly. He is disconcerting, quick, and a mild tyrant in social affairs; he invents complicated variations of poker, which he almost invariably wins and which in consequence he is the only one who enjoys playing. But if the other players protest he good-naturedly returns to the rules. He goes to the movies at the White House about every fortnight, sits in the front row, and comments aloud about the picture. If he did the same thing in a public theater, it "would cause people...
...Uncle Joe" promptly adopted it. Just as promptly it was dubbed in arsy-versy army lingo, "Operation Mallory Major." It was a sequel to "Operation Strangle" (TIME, May 8), in which German supply routes to central Italy were torn apart in preparation for the push on Rome...
...German dismemberment had gone as far as this: it would lop from prewar Germany a large (roughly 26,000 sq. mi.),populous (about 6,500,000), rich (coal and iron mines, farm lands) territory, most of which had not belonged to the Slavs since the 11th Century. It would push Poland's border to within 50 miles of Berlin...