Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nerf-To push another...
...disprove the public impression of me and my organization. As time went on, I could only see that, unless we put our house in order, the Democratic Party in New York would have no value as a party at all. I watched very carefully for the right places to push for or against the right program...
...Medical Service Graduate School has recently had a team in Madagascar studying plague, while another worked on scrub typhus in North Borneo. Now the big push on scrub typhus is in Japan (where it becomes tsutsugamushi disease): medics from Walter Reed are at Zama studying the chiggers that transmit the disease, while Japanese artists draw them...
...minute time exposure. After overcoming the hazards of Venice's crowded streets and ringing church bells, both resulting in imperceptible vibrations of the building's walls, Kessel discovered another hazard that blurred his picture. The heat from the floodlights made warm air behind the painting push the canvas almost microscopically while his shutter was open. He finally prevented that by heating the painting beforehand with lights. The result was worth the effort: Italian art experts said that Kessel's results "succeeded for the first time in reproducing photographically Tintoretto's original colors as the artist himself...
...House, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, took the role of anti-business gadfly. He attacked the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council (a group of top industrialists and financiers), and tried to push through a bill to put bank mergers under the Antitrust Act. At hearings on his anti-bank merger bill, he charged that bank mergers threaten a "free and competitive economy," but his bill died in the Rules Committee...