Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luis Alvarez, professor of physics at the University of California, who was on the staff at Los Alamos during World War II (he helped develop the detonating mechanism for the atomic bomb). In September 1949, after the Russians exploded an atomic bomb, Dr. Alvarez and Dr. Lawrence decided to push for development of the H-bomb. Nearly all of the scientists they reached were enthusiastic and anxious to get the program going, Dr. Alvarez testified. He expected Oppenheimer to be enthusiastic, too, because during World War II Oppenheimer had been anxious to get on with thermonuclear research...
...truth of it is, I never went to the Metropolitan until I married Mrs. Miles two years ago. I let her push me into going, and right away discovered it wasn't so bad after all. Meanwhile, she had never been to a big-league baseball game, but when we got the franchise, she, for her part, became crazy about it ... Now we're each all wrapped up in the other's favorite project, and the peace in the Miles household-it's wonderful...
FLOYD ODLUM, who just completed an oil deal with the Argentine government of Juan Peron, is now discussing the formation of a new holding and investment company, Atlas Corp., Argentina, to push Argentine industrial development. U.S. companies' pesos frozen in Argentina would be used as operating capital at the start, and the stock would be listed on the New York Stock Exchange so that U.S. investors could buy in later...
...dean of the faculty must be shrewd enough to gauge when the final push of a program should be made. A premature vote could kill a program, while unending debate might result in a hopelessly amended and watered-down proposal. He waits through the discussion until he feels that the Faculty is mostly agreeable. This moment might come earlier than Administration critics expect, as this winter when the Advanced Standing proposals cleared the Faculty after only two meetings...
...last week, Photographer Capa, TIME Correspondent John Mecklin and Scripps-Howard's Jim Lucas set out at dawn with a French mechanized column to push deep into enemy-infested territory. Amidst exploding land mines, mortar fire and whining snipers' bullets, Capa sat in the front of the jeep, a thermos of iced tea and a jug of cognac at his side, Nikon and Contax cameras around his neck. Often the column was stopped by a volley of bullets or an exploding mine. Every time, Capa jumped out and snapped pictures as French soldiers searched for the source...