Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Armistice Day, the date widely feared as the time for a big German push, came and went. Belgian and Dutch nerves were calmed a trifle. It seemed certain that Germany had delivered no ultimatum to the Low Countries. Then what had the Nazis done or said to spread fear? The Cabinets of the two nations kept their own counsel, and, for once, even "well-informed circles" were singularly uninformed. Best and most tenable guess was made by a New York Times correspondent at Amsterdam...
...purchases had already reached a peak in purchase of combat planes, that future orders would be mostly for training ships. Reason: rising British home production and a growing disrespect for the Nazi airforce. Eastern planemakers, however, felt buying would increase when delivery could be assured. What a big German push on the Western Front would do was another matter...
...model 200, "the White Horse." Features, 1) an air-cooled motor which is slung just ahead of the rear axle, can be unhitched and wheeled out on the rear wheels, an arrangement which claims to eliminate 551 parts, to facilitate keeping a fleet of trucks in condition, 2) a push-button door latch which needs but to be properly bumped to open, 3) an all-welded chassis (no bolts, no rivets), 4) a clutch-and-gear-shift combination which can be operated with one hand. Capacity of the truck is from 1½ to 3 tons pay load...
...Terriers faded badly in the last stanza, allowing the Jayvees to push over two touchdowns, one on a pass from "Squibby" Squibb to Gordon and the other on a short pass, Bigwood to Kayser. Fumbling the pass from center in an attempted kick for the extra point, Feary plunged over through a maze of Terrier tacklers to make the score...
Mainstays of the Crimson's victory push were Langy Burwell, Jim Lightbody, and Gene Clark, who finished closely bunched up in third, fourth and fifth places. Penn Tuttle's eighth place and Dick Wing's seventeenth clinched the case for the Mikkolamen, as Dave Simboll and Joe McLoughlin finished out of the money--twenty-second and twenty-seventh respectively...