Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Puerto Ricans rejoiced. The U.S. Department of the Interior, which helped push the election bill through Congress, was happy, too. Said Under Secretary Oscar L. Chapman: "People and nations all over the world . . . will see in [this law] evidence that the U.S. puts into practice its principles of democracy and self-determination...
...must say he was not without vanity. He'd be dozing in his stall and some visitors would arrive. He would rouse himself, get to his feet and give them that look of the eagles-lofty and over their heads you know. But he'd let me push him or pull him around. Of course there was a little cupboard love involved-I always had something in my pocket...
Throughout them Forster contrasts the simple instincts of people with the taboos and sophistries of social custom. In The Machine Stops-written as "a counterblast to one of the heavens of H. G. Wells"-he describes a world of push-button perfection in which men have lost their souls. Says one inhabitant of this Utopia under the surface of the earth: "Those funny old days, when men went for a change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms!" But when another character gets a brief look at the earth's surface, with all its imperfections...
Next fortnight, in Rio the 21 American republics will send delegates to the Inter-American Conference on Peace & Security. For gaunt, scholarly Raúl Fernandes, Brazil's 69-year-old Foreign Minister, the meeting will be something of a personal triumph. It will give him opportunity to push his, and Brazil's, two-fold policy: Pan-Americanism and friendship with the U.S. As Brazil's chief delegate, he will wield great, if not always apparent, power...
...Morpeth last week: "We shall be five million tons short of our requirements by the end of 1947." Mrs. Ivy Lee, a young London matron, understood what that meant. She said: "A good thing I didn't give away my little boy's push pram-looks like coming in handy again this winter, if we have to queue for a few pounds down at the old coal wharf...