Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field cheered. Col. Lindbergh was due in one hour. Late comers chugged eagerly up, arguing excitedly at tripled taxi prices; their eyes on the sky. Presently the shattering "Viva Lindbergh." The crowd charged the plane; Col. Lindbergh screamed them back. 'It took 15 minutes for his escort to push him through the crowd to the hangar where waited President Pio Romero Bosque, the Cabinet, the General Staff, diplomats...
...Rightly understood, there is no more sensational story of human experience. Society is made up of constants and variables. The variables attract us by their contrasts and are always appearing in the headlines. But the constants always predominate, always push ahead in the march of progress...
...invalid. She would call Emily into her room and the two of them would discuss Mrs. Fletcher. Emily was too weak to oppose her mother's economies that took, among other things, the form of selling the furniture and buying clothes at second-hand sales. Mrs. Elliot would push herself up in bed and stare at the pale, frightened child. "She clutched her granddaughter's wrist and shook her arm 'Don't you understand? You must resist her. . . . Why, if I were your age, knowing her as I do, knowing that she never had a grain...
...soft drink, mixed with mechanical generosity, despatch and cleanliness; automatically spouted into the glass after the plunk of the coin. On the second Sodamat model, there were electric lights. The next carbonated its own soda-water. The models installed last week on Broadway had lights, carbonation, electric refrigeration, neat push buttons. Concoctions: orange, grape, lime, ginger ale, cherry, root beer, fruit punch, oriental cream, raspberry...
...bills can always rise again, as long as Congress meets again. There is every indication that the McNary-Haugenites will fight for their bill (or a similar substitute) at the next session of Congress. The Administration, too, announced last week that it would push a new farm relief bill which Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine, Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, Eugene Meyer, head of the Federal Farm Loan Board, and others have been formulating during the summer...