pushful
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This action clearly certified the future of super-industry in Alabama and endorsed the condition Birmingham has in mind when, like pushful Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, it calls itself "Greater Birmingham."
From Time Magazine Archive
With such a mother as Caterina, the natural daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, he was bound to acquire with her milk the instincts of a pushful personality.
From The Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley
The typical qualities of dissent became a certain pushful exertion by which the external criteria of salvation could be secured.
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski
And who in this pushful, practical age has ever heard of a car spotter in the railway yards buying a ton of coal?
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
I trust not," said Larcher; "but he's one of the pushful sort.
From The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day by Robert Neilson Stephens
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