Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman done it? The inference was almost inevitable: to improve his waning political fortunes. He must have hoped that, by such a spotlighted and dramatic gesture, he could catch the imagination of the people and push back the overwhelming odds against his reelection. His attempted action was shocking because it showed that he had no conception whatever of the difference between the President of the United States and a U.S. politician...
...having got that off my chest, I'm practically rolling on my way to West Point, blank in spite of my education at Cornell, malleable in spite of my education at Virginia, a push-over for the first demagogue who comes along and says "Army schmarmy! We'll murder the bums...
...contribute $15 a term to support a Hygiene Department that he never uses. The intricacies of University accounting cannot guarantee that the $100,000 is a concrete balance, but even the committee's figures, which ignore this profit, support the notion that such an amnesty for commuters would not push the department into...
Graduates will meet with President W. K. Jordan and Deans Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Mildred P. Sherman, and Bernice Brown Cronkhite and Professor Helen Maud Cam to map plans for a concerted eight-month drive to push the Fund over its $40,000 total by next June...
...Parkinson: "Neither banks nor life-insurance companies have any right to expect a guaranteed buyer." Parkinson thought that FRB should let the bonds find their own level in a free market. His argument was that lower bond prices meant higher yields, and higher yields on Treasuries would in turn push up the commercial interest rate. Making credit more expensive, thought Parkinson, would help nip inflation...