Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's speech was a forceful attack on the whole gigantic problem of U.S. economy and defense. The tax program gave clear answer to critics who have wondered if Eisenhower would use his enormous prestige with the voters to push for specific legislation. But his defense of the Air Force cuts, despite the personal guarantees of a great ex-soldier, did not satisfy defense-minded critics in Congress (see below...
...Education & Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby and Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, one judge replied: "The capacity and intelligence of Mrs. Luce do not apply to the case of a Brazilian woman." In the end, the judges denied Maria Sandra's appeal. But friends in Parliament were trying to push through bills to admit women to the foreign service. The Foreign Office recommended to President Getulio Vargas that the ban against women be dropped, and allowed Maria Sandra to study at its special training school for diplomats (whose entrance exams she had passed with flying colors). Said...
Back in Boston, Gropius is the leader of an eight-architect team at work on six modern schools for Massachusetts and New Hampshire; his team is also designing a radical, prismatic-shaped office building in Washington with windows that have what Gropius calls "eyebrows"-steel and glass louvers that push out horizontally as protection against the summer sun. And there are plans for modern housing developments that make Gropius' eyes light up with joy. His team of architects is designing two of them near Boston, one of 30 houses...
...response to this appeal, Legionaires across the nation took new interest in the welfare of lecture-goers. In Harrison, New York, the local post united with the Board of Education to push through a loyalty oath required of all who use Harrison school buildings, from visiting college lecturers to Boy Scouts...
...roughshod over the president of a huge university, but Hall seemed to think that Griswold ought to stick to matters of alumni, faculty, and educational policy. There was very little contact between the president's office and the athletic office. And when Hall wasn't busy trying to push Yale back into the big time he sat at the head of the N.C.A.A. television committee, trying to force the rest of the nation's universities to keep up the fiction that football is a business, not a sport...