Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designers' sights are aimed at higher things than the speeds of these sweet-flying planes. Newer models, such as North American's F-86A, are already nibbling gingerly at the speed of sound, and no one doubts that the turbojet engine can soon push properly designed airframes across the threshold...
...loopholes to prospective wife-killers. If you are anxious to avoid hanging, he said, "you can strangle her, hold her head in a gas oven . . . stab her, cut her throat or bash her brains out. If you can arrange a procedure, you can set her on fire, push her off a station platform in front of an oncoming train, push her through the porthole of a ship, or, more easily, you can drown her in the bathtub...
Boyd considered using conveyor belts and moving vans, decided instead to rely on raw Princeton manpower. He hired 35 undergraduates for $1 an hour, eight hours a day. For ten weeks, in sunshine or showers, they would push book trucks down a covered ramp, connecting the old and new buildings...
...result, at the company's annual meeting last spring, was a free-for-all brawl for control. The opposing factions tried to shout and push each other down, and held a tug of war with company records. They finally had to call a cop (to restore a modicum, of order) and go to court before the quarrel was temporarily settled in favor of the adamant management. But the management had had a bad scare...
Samuel Lewis, business manager of Local 3, accused the committee of favoring management against the workers. "Now don't talk that way," warned Georgia's Congressman John Wood. Bellowed Lewis: "Never mind how I talk." Lewis was convoyed out, snapping at the marshals, "Don't push me, take your hands off me," and still trying to make a speech...