Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the freshmen's best efforts, however, to get another touchdown. Twelve plays were required before Jerry Biltz got his second and Harvard's third Td on a three yard push...
Five Yard and Cambridge policemen had their hands full yesterday controlling the onlookers--sometimes over 500 strong. "Way back" shouts of Lieut. Matthew Tooey usually evoked a little more than "push 'em back" chant from the flocking spectators...
...with the teaching of history in U.S. schools. Too many of them, he thinks, have become victims of "historical senti-mentalism." Their view of the past has become clouded by a vogue of optimism, their work distorted by a wave of wishful thinking and a burning determination to push moral issues under the rug. In the current issue of Partisan Review, Professor Schlesinger states his case...
...bears, on the other hand, argued that the inventory boom which had started in August was already tapering off, and that the strikes were bound to give the economy another push down. Even if the walkouts were settled soon-and there was no sign of that-many a company was bound to feel the effects on its fourth-quarter earnings. Gloomiest talk of all came this week from Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer. He said that the strikes had already checked "the upward trend in business and employment," and that there would be "serious damage to the economy...
...problem of turning a corner. It would travel at high speeds in a straight line, but when faced with a left or right turn, would come to a complete halt and hang its head, confused and hurt. Whereupon the driver was forced to alight from the sulky and physically push the moose until it was once again aimed in the correct direction and high speed travel could proceed. The coming of winter matorially affected neither the animal's speed nor his inability to turn corners, and in the chillier seasons it hauled a small sled instead of a sulky...