Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Saltonstall emphasized that he would push for a meeting "just as soon as it is feasibly possible" and had "strongly urged each committee member to continually analyze and consider every modification in the plan proposed at the last meeting...
Perilous Bend. Jews were grim about Kastel. Said one: "We have to attack it again. This is our Battle of the Atlantic." They had managed to run a convoy of 40 food trucks through to Jerusalem by another road, the first supplies in twelve days. In a new push, Haganah fighters retook Kastel. But Fawzi Bey Kawukji, commanding the Arabs in the north, sent artillery and armored cars to support the Jerusalem Arabs. By week's end, Arabs claimed that they again held the village...
...critics say he is a confirmed fence-straddler who rides the donkey and the elephant at the same time, a phony liberal who proposes social reforms with one hand and fails to push them through with the other, a bullheaded, plodding mediocrity who never says or does anything out of the ordinary...
Headed by Daniel M. Pierce '49, the University chapter has been officially chartered by the National Students for Stassen Committee. Plans are being rushed forward to enlist new members, distribute pins and literature, and push a Stassen victory in a mock convention to be held next month at the University...
...Push-ups and knee bends are serious business to 45 veterans vigorously remolding their war-damaged bodies under a program sponsored by the College Hygiene and Physical Training Departments...