Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to push our own brands," said swarthy President John Hartford of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. in 1930. "We leave it to our customers to buy what they want. Of all the food products we handle, only 10% comprise private brands which may be regarded as strictly competitive with national labels...
...suggested their readers might boycott the game on the ground that the Panthers would provide no opposition, scolded Washington for picking a pushover. If they read the publicity, the Panthers had sense enough to withhold comment until the ball was kicked off to them. The pushovers then began to push...
...182Walter Hoving, a Swede from Stockholm, got his first push upward...
...lately-deceased Catholics who might fit Father Feeney's specifications, and whose friends could be counted upon to push their saintly causes, the best known would be Wartime Chaplain Rev. Francis P. Duffy, Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees) and Football Coach Knute Rockne. All are known to have lived impeccable Catholic lives; two met violent deaths. But no instance has yet been publicized of miracles having been performed through their intercession...
...Mary Haines discovers through gossipy friends that her husband has become involved with a perfume salesgirl, her sage mother advises her to ignore the whole matter (as she did 30 years before) and keep her husband and her home at the cost of her pride. But the gossipy friends push Mary remorselessly along the Reno trail with all its bitterness...