Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make a social worker despair. "The average kid who's had the rug pulled out from under him," says Director Allen Thomas, "is not sick. The experts have scared the wits out of laymen. The best way to treat a child, it seems to me, is to push here, guide there, play it by ear as any conscientious and unafraid father would...
...Deke fraternity initiation (TIME, Feb. 27), the University of Texas (enrollment 15,500) ran into some hazing trouble of its own. Wearing burlap bags, Delta Sigma Phi pledges had been ordered to drink mineral oil, play wheelbarrow, i.e., walk around on their hands while someone held their feet, push brushes across the floor with their noses. One boy was put to bed with a severely upset stomach. Another was hospitalized. Paul Earney, 24-year-old ex-paratrooper, spent a week in the hospital as a result of a neck injury received during the "brush race." Though the hazing was actually...
Bartley gave the losers their only score by sinking a 50-foot push shot in the wrong basket. He added ten baskets and two foul shots to wind up as high scorer for both teams. By sinking the other point, D. A-. Resnick proved that Bartley is not infallible...
...Kiekhaefer kept his highly trained mechanics working for weeks at tuning the engine, test-driving the car, turning the tires down on a tire lathe until they were as bald as racing rubber, and perfectly balanced. All Flock had to do to beat his less elaborately prepared competitors was push the accelerator to the floorboard and steer...
...Responsibility. Neutrality, said Oldenburg's Evangelical Bishop D. Gerhard Jacobin, "has become absolutely impossible because wars have become total wars. In the age of democracy the individual cannot push the responsibility for war to the state. The individual is co-responsible, and the Christian must oppose wars waged for the enrichment of the state or for power . . . but in a state of emergency in which moral values are endangered, the defense of these values can be more important than life itself...