Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squares Albers has been painting for some time. A brilliant teacher (and chairman of Yale University's Department of Design), Albers considers all his own work experimental. By painting squares within squares of varying colors, he achieves an endless variety of odd, beautiful and sometimes disturbing effects. "I push my colors," he explains soberly. "I want to push a green so it looks red." When students complain that to "push" colors Albers limits himself to the coldly unemotional, the artist replies with a thin smile that "emotions are usually prejudices...
Mendès hoped to win over the Socialists, who have disdained to join any French government for the past three years, by giving them six Cabinet posts. The Socialists decided to join Mendès only if he agreed beforehand to push three Socialist measures. Unwilling to have his hands tied, Mendès said he would study the conditions until his return. He arrived in Quebec looking his usual assured self. After all, the Socialists, with almost no debate, had agreed to support the Paris accord for the new German army, which should assure its passage...
FARM PRICE PROPS will drop even further this year. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson feels that the Midwest election returns have justified his flexible price-support program, will now push for lower supports whenever practical. First to be chopped: feed grains, now supported at 85% of parity, which will probably...
...Washington last week, Mediator McCoy was clearing the decks for what promises to be one of the toughest battles in years: the C.I.O.'s push for a guaranteed annual wage from the auto industry. Though negotiations will not start until spring, McCoy is already briefing three top FMCS mediators on all the facts and arguments in the case. He hopes to use the negotiations as a testing ground for one of his favorite ideas: the best way to avoid labor trouble would be through preventive mediation. He wants FMCS men to preside over the auto bargaining sessions from...
From a political standpoint, such a move is unnecessary. The Russians could never push Communist leaf-lets through UNESCO presses. The West has an over-whelming majority in the group, and even with the most rigid discipline, Communist delegates could not control policy. Nor need the West counter any propaganda seeping in from Moscow. Working in the cultural field, UNESCO offers little opportunity for the sensationalism which marks General Assembly debates. Partisan speeches on non-political subjects have held little interest for the global audience...