Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But, like Secretary Weeks, they are no longer willing to go hunt someone to sell them something. Since most of their pressing needs have been filled, many consumers are in a mood to buy only if a salesman is willing to take the trouble to sell them.
"Original thought is not necessarily novel or strange thought; certainly it need not be destructive thought, but only thought that one has made one's own by pressing it out, forging it in one's head," he added.
He attacked the "recent unprofessional, and at best misguided, activity of at least a few teachers" who have been pressing for more conformity. "One cannot successfully oppose indoctrination or fight communism, in which everything works towards conformity, with increased pressures to conform."
There was a pressing need too for a place to study. The House libraries and Widener would overflow during reading and exam periods until every restaurant in the Square was full of cramming students. And still there was not enough room. It was time for a new library.
Stevenson asked for a postponement because of a pressing speaking schedule. The 1952 Democratic presidential candidate recently returned from a trip around the world.