Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every station, sixty people from your overcrowded car elbow their way off, and another seventy push in from the station to get on. Towards the end of the trip, as your back begins to stick to the disintegrating leather of the old upright seats, the sunrise lights up the outskirts of the miserable border town of Nuevo Laredo, sweltering colorlessly in the semi-desert of Northern Mexico...
...Broome Street is a bustling, truck-clogged thoroughfare; at 9 p.m. it is all but deserted. Doubtfully, the passenger pays the cabby and walks over to try the door of the store. It is locked. He is about to return to the taxi when he notices a small bell push, hidden in the shadows. He presses; a buzzer signals that the door is unlocked. He steps inside a tiny, pitch-black room; the door clicks quietly back into place. Silence. Then, suddenly, out of the blackness comes a deep, disembodied voice. "Welcome to Cerebrum," it says. "Your name, please...
Buyers are also ordering many more accessories, including air conditioners, push-button windows and supersize engines. In 1966 only 12% of the buyers wanted vinyl roofs; now 33% do-at an extra cost of $80 to $100. Power steering is ordered with 80% of the cars, up from 66% two years ago, and 90% have automatic transmissions...
...push the call button. The sudden ping in the cockpit might startle the felon and provoke him to fire his pistol. This could cause the skin of your aircraft to be punctured. In the unlikely event of this occurring, follow emergency procedures...
...screens, or white walls. He discovers first that working behind a camera is physically exhausting; more traumatic is the realization that making a film with actors is often a ruthless procedure, one which requires making your friends take an awful lot of chances. Once you start, you can only push to the finish and hope that those same friends don't get lost here and there...