Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, now that he is committed, Dulles cannot abandon his proposal without losing international prestige. He must attempt to push it through, arousing as little ill-will as possible. If necessary, Dulles should allow the delegates to amend the wording of the resolution toward their more moderate outlook. The United States will appear less the Hemispheric dictator, and chances of quickly concluding this phase of the conference will improve. For it is in the best interests of the United states to begin discussion of economic problems...
...pretty selfish not to pass it along as he tells it." The story was that a motorist, who refused to identify himself, was driving along Connecticut's Merritt Parkway when his car stalled. He flagged a passing car, asked the woman driving it to give him a push. Since his own car had an automatic transmission, he explained: "You'll have to get up to 30 to 35 miles an hour in order to get me started." The woman nodded and backed up as the man climbed into his car. The man waited for the push. When...
...appears certain that if the elections and particularly the GOP primaries are dominated by the question of Communism, then the people who will be returned to the Senate and House this full will not be dedicated to the Eisenhower program. The President has often needed Democratic votes to push through his program in recent months. He can not afford the election of many more right-wing Republicans obsessed with the single issue of Communist subversion and blind to the need for passage of many planks in his program. The Maine case in which a young McCarthy supporter has challenged liberal...
...scenes rush by at almost too agitated a pace; the moviegoer, continuously aware that the vehicle is trying to beat the clock, may begin to feel like getting out to push. At 119 minutes, this might have been a much better movie than it is at 109. Yet the direction, by Noel Langley, has a real Dickensian rollick, and the acting is stylish, if not brilliant caricature. James Hayter is a dear old tub as Pickwick; Nigel Patrick, as Jingle, makes a properly swagger cheapJack; and Comedienne Joyce Grenfell, as Mrs. Leo Hunter, the aristocratic wreck who holds the "literahry...
...fourth, however, there was neither hope nor scoring for the varsity. In the first two minutes, Murgo alone threw in four baskets on a beautiful deadly push shot. Here Sacks fouled out, and he was followed to the bench almost immediately by Bob Bowman, emergency starting center, and starting guards Ed Krinsky and Ed Condon, all with five fouls...