Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before a healthy audience of some 2,000, he flailed clerical prudery, plumped for the healthy life and for good clean sex ("The sexes were never made to be separated.") and explained Cosmotarianism, "the Religion of Happiness." The white-maned publisher, clad in suit and shoes to match, did push-ups and headstands (calculated to prolong life from ten to 25 years), warned women: "Beauty must be associated with a good digestion...
Whatever the factors of uncertainty might be, the Generalissimo was determined to push national reconstruction. It was an indissoluble part of Chiang's plan...
Across the Khalka River armed Russia and armed Japan glared in hatred, waiting for the day when one would push the other from the steppes of central Asia and win the key region for dominating northern China. Meanwhile the Japanese installed Prince Teh in an old, tile-roofed, Mongol palace at Inner Mongolia's metropolis, Koko Hoto (pop. 120,000)-the "Blue City," so called because from a distance a bluish haze veils...
Said Digger Higgins: "It's very simple, really. You just push down on this plumber's helper, and up come the clams, all clean...
...already forgotten about Russia's internal and external affairs from 1936 to 1939. (Barmine points out that the Purge, and Soviet charges that most of Russia's general staff and high diplomats had committed treason with Germany, was one reason why Britain and France did not push harder for a Russian alliance in 1939.) The book is important as a record of the mechanics of the change whereby socialist states are transformed into police states. It is important as a moral and political indictment of Europe's and Asia's No. 1 power...