Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Army tanks, scout cars, supply lorries suddenly bloomed with the big white star which has identified U.S. military vehicles throughout the war; this will help strafing Allied airmen avoid mistakes after the push is on in Europe...
Hope into Turmoil. When Rios started his term, he was the brightest hope of South American democracy. But he did not push the urgent reforms demanded by the Leftist coalition which put him in power, showed more liking for conservatives than for Communists who had given him powerful support. He lost the confidence of Chile's Popular Front, failed to gain the complete confidence of his new friends on the Right. Result: turmoil. Rios, without a political majority, found it difficult to govern at all. Chile's numerous ills, notably including a rampant inflation, grew worse & worse...
...week the Allies rolled up the shin of the Italian boot, while the northern end of the main Italian battle line stood silent. The aim of Allied Commander Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander seemed clear: to push back the German right flank, smash into it with his troops at the Anzio beachhead...
...Rear Areas. Apparently the smashup of German communications by Allied airmen, before the push began, had worked a change in the Germans' will and ability to fight in their most competent fashion. There was also a well-grounded suspicion among U.S. officers that Field Marshal Kesselring may have been outwitted to boot...
While Dictator Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez was fighting the "civil disobedience" of his people (TIME, May 22), the death of a U.S. boy provided the final push to topple the tyrant from power. At the height of the civil revolution, 17-year-old Joseph Wright (son of a U.S. father, a Salvadorian mother) was talking with friends on a street of strike-bound San Salvador. In obedience to a police command, they dispersed. But one policeman fired, killed Joseph instantly...