Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a few words, a knowing nod and a confidential elbow-push in the stomach, he convinced many a jittery second-rater that he was really a wildcat. His persuasiveness worked the other way, too. Johnston once whispered to mighty Jess Willard: "Jess, you killed a man in your last fight. . . . I just thought I'd warn you, my boy has a bad heart...
Sharing the floor with Shapley and other scientists, Senator Brien McMahen, chairman of the Senate Atomic Energy Committee, will speak on "Legislative Control of the Atomic Bomb." The entire program, which includes a playlet on push button atomic warfare, will emphasize civilian use and control of atomic energy...
Appropriately enough, Kelly has been concentrating in Government, so that by the time he graduates in June he will have had the benefit of much of the knowledge and experience the Faculty has to offer, and will already have a strong push into the election arena by being unopposed in the primaries June...
...feel a lemming-like urge to go nightclubbing. The way is usually beset by obstacles and hazards: doormen dressed like admirals, headwaiters with manners like Gestapo agents, blonde Mata Haris of the checkroom, silk ropes, and other frustrated pilgrims awaiting admission. But the lemmings are not discouraged; they bribe, push and plead for the privilege of paying $8 to $125 a couple for dining, drinking blended rye at saucer-sized tables, breathing smoke and carbon monoxide and getting their eardrums clouted by a boogie woogie beat...
...small American state [Hollywood] is on the eve of revolution. . . . The causes . . . are those of every similar uprising: the men in high places are incompetent, their standards lower with each passing year. They rule with the power of wealth alone and push people of talent and knowledge to the wall...