Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dogged Attempt. In Chicago, Mrs. Louise Schoeffler filed suit for separate maintenance, complained that Husband Otto had "attempted to push and shove a small puppy dog down [her] throat...
...tired House, Oklahoma's young, progressive A. S. Mike Monroney, Democrat, teamed with Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen to push the bill which had been fought through the Senate by Wisconsin's Robert La Follette Jr. In last week's maneuvers they lost the provisions for legislative policy committees for both minority and majority parties, and for an executive-legislative council. The reason: Speaker Sam Rayburn wanted to keep the four-man Democratic policy committee which meets with the President every Monday morning...
...much was the Administration to blame? With the filing of the report, many a U.S. citizen assumed that the case was now one for the historians. Not yet. This week, Maine's Brewster looked forward to the election of a Republican Congress; one thing he intended to push when that day came: a second Congressional Pearl Harbor investigation...
...Nanking insider sized up the crisis: "The trend of events indicates that the Generalissimo, while unwilling to risk an all-out, knockdown-dragout civil war is determined to push the Communists away from the railroads and out of economically important areas. The big question is whether the Generalissimo can keep the Communists bottled up on the sidelines while he achieves his objectives in a short time. If the going is tough the next two or three months, he will probably return to negotiation-provided hell does not pop beyond the possibility of control...
...instrument, which includes an ordinary telephone receiver, a wire recorder and a push-button control box, is the first fully automatic telephonograph. If its owner is busy or out, the gadget patiently waits out four rings, then croaks: "This is the Ipsophone, Blank Company, Mr. Smith's office. Attention. Please speak-now." If the caller is struck speechless, the machine waits politely for twelve seconds then repeats its invitation. The Ipsophone will listen for up to half an hour without interruption, recording every word...