Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FARM PRODUCTION for 1954 will be the fifth biggest in history despite drought and strict planting controls, says the U.S. Agriculture Department. Although corn, cotton, and wheat are all down, big gains in lesser crops (oats, barley, rye, etc.) will push the totals to well over 100% of the high 1947-49 average...
...dominant push for moderation, however, came from the U.S., which is bedeviled by the contradictions between its own deep anticolonial instinct and the fact that its most important cold war allies are the colonial powers. In the most important committee votes, the U.S. abstained. But the U.S. was primarily concerned that nothing be done to upset Western Europeans at so crucial a stage in Western rearmament. In the U.N.'s corridors and lounges, where the doubtful are influenced, U.S. delegation members worked to soften all proposals for provocative action in favor of postponement...
...Antilles islands (Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, St. Eustatius, Saba and half of St. Martin) have been Dutch colonies since the 17th century. Dutchmen gained possession of the islands by driving out the Spaniards, who didn't even put up a fight. When the Dutch also tried to push the British out of the part of Guiana now called Surinam, the British countered by seizing New Amsterdam (Manhattan). Later, in the 1667 Peace of Breda, the Dutch traded off New Amsterdam (bought from the Indians for $24) for 55,000 square miles in Guiana...
...finds it is his duty to discuss the merits and demerits of any record ever made, from Aaronovich's fluffed trill in Op. O to Zzinzer's fallow tempos in Op. Posth. He predates the much-publicized hi-fi bug (who specializes in woofers, super-tweeters and push-pull amplifier circuits), but not until now has anyone tried to organize the record connoisseur's guerrilla war and set down some basic strategy...
When Clinton D. McKinnon, a successful San Diego publisher and businessman, bought the debt-ridden Los Angeles Daily News a year ago, he cheerily admitted that his main objective was to "push the undertaker away from the door." The task was harder than McKinnon realized. In Los Angeles, where five dailies battle for circulation, former Democratic Congressman McKinnon hoped to win readers with the only paper that "reflected the policies of the Democratic Party." But this week the undertaker came in the door...