Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Troubles with Congress occupied the President. He talked with Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon on how to push through his apparently stymied bill for a civilian commission to control atomic-energy research. At his press conference, brisk Harry Truman bristled when a reporter asked about another bogged-down piece of legislation: the universal military training bill. Snapped the President: he had done everything he could possibly do, including a personally delivered message of recommendation; he could not order the Senate and House to pass...
...wastelands of northwestern Canada, U.S. officers had joined "Operation Musk-Ox," designed to push air bases as far north as possible...
...long last, the foreign press invaded Soviet-occupied Manchuria. After months of Red tape and runarounds, 22 correspondents and photographers found it deceptively easy to push aside the iron curtain that had kept them out. With a hesitant Godspeed from the Chinese, they boarded northbound trains at Chinchow for sightseeing tours of Mukden, and Changchun, the capital...
Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM, which is loudly "against people who push other people around," is itself probably journalism's No. 1 pusher-arounder. Its Editor Ralph McAllister Ingersoll last week directed a hearty shove at one of his own columnists, Fiorello LaGuardia. Wrote Ingersoll...
...getting ready for the big push. Five or six of us plan to go to Europe in March. . . . We hope to go to Scandinavia and Germany and maybe Russia. Next fall we're going to Australia and New Zealand, and in a year to China and Japan...