Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead orf merely passing a step test as Crimson freshmen must, Yale's incoming class is subjected to physical fitness teams, which require proficiency in a standing broad jump (86 inches), push ups (25), sit ups (50), and chins (8). Also the Eli must swim twice the distance (100 yards) Harvard freshmen...
...further pointed out that the 30 to 40 members of the Class of '59 represent the smallest such group ever. And increased pressure for admission will, Howe predicted, push the number even lower...
Fifteen years ago, when the Nazis and the Communists were such fine false friends, Stalin and Hitler agreed on the direction in which Russia really should expand: down towards the Persian Gulf. In looking southward, the Russian was echoing an ambition as old as Peter the Great's push for a warm-water port...
Last week, their expansion in Europe contained, the Russians were elbowing their way into the Middle East with a great display of interest. Commanding this new Soviet push are not Red Army marshals but propagandists and trade commissars with order books, credit vouchers and a glib line...
...controversial Echo Park Dam from their plan to develop power resources on the upper Colorado River. Conservationists had opposed the plan, angrily pointing out that the Echo Park Dam would flood the Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado's northwest corner. The four-state group now plans to push four other dams in a bill to be introduced in Congress next session...