Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complained that the Senator was not assisting party organization. Friction between the men was further increased when Furcolo tried to persuade Kennedy to put off a major surgical operation until after the election. The combination of Kennedy's reluctance to enter the campaign and Furcolo's awkward attempts to push him in have further irritated the sensitive relationship...
...just wondering, with [the] possibility of a continuous universal military training program, how much more our nation will tend to push its basic concepts of democracy to the limits and approach closer to a, military other-direction type of culture...
...undisciplined days of rough-and-tumble publishing, many publishers were reluctant to open their books for audit. A further difficulty lay in the fact that there was no standard bookkeeping and auditing method in the publishing business. Groups of advertisers and their agents organized and continued to push for accurate circulation figures and a uniform method of presenting them...
...states in the U.S. are striving to live down that shame. As late as 1948, Indiana ranked 40th among the states, judged by the crude yardstick, of the amount of money spent on mental patients ($1.11 a day). But last week Indiana was in the midst of a "total push" to bring itself to top rank...
Petty Principalities. The push began when burly Republican Lawyer George North Craig was campaigning for the governorship in 1952 and pledged himself to reform the state's mental institutions. When he took office, Craig found them in chaos. There were ten mental hospitals, each run as a petty principality by an autonomous board of trustees. Craig got the legislature to put all state hospitals under centralized control and to vote an extra $4,400,000 (a 21% increase) for running them the first year, and $6,700,00 the next. Then the real work began...