Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within four years after he started at Treasury, a new division, Monetary Research, was created at his suggestion. The logical choice to head the department: Harry Dexter White. To push himself ahead, he flattered his superiors shamelessly. He used to tell his staff members that he learned the trick of flattery as a salesman. He could always sell a man after a compliment, he said. His advice: "You can't pile it on too thick...
...reason for this is the strange circumstance surrounding the report. Griswold was on the committee, he wrote part of it, and despite a heavy silence from the president's house, the report is to a large degree a test of Griswold's power. Although he steadfastly refuses to push the plans, although he withholds all comment to reporters, although he will probably not say anything until final action has been taken, this is Griswold's report. He has approved of everything in it; and what it represents is the Yale College he wants. If the faculty votes against the proposal...
...annual cleaning rounds last June, Lynch, who, like most of the janitors before him, know about the scroll, found it "sticking halfway out of the hole and mashed against the doorframe." He tried to push it back in, but soon saw that "all those additions and things made it just too large...
...supports him. Usually, the bulk of a President's support does come from this quarter. But in Eisenhower's case, he was not only elected by dissident Democratic voters: much of his support comes from Democrats in Congress. Those Republicans who have knifed the President in his efforts to push his program, he has no obligation to support...
Lunden expected good weather this week to push the Princeton sale over the Dartmouth game's 34,800. He denied rumors that temporary stands might be erected for an overflow crowd, saying, "If the College officials didn't put them up for Yale last year, they won't do it for Princeton...