Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make. Unable to find suitable females (the chorus is full of "dried up wretches") they sublimate with a bottle of wine, after invoking the services of a good-natured Bacchus. The Soprano decides that the conquest of a god would give immortal proof of her powers. The Satyrs push the unwilling Bacchus into her arms, but he soon grows sated with her singing. "The only cure for excessive vocal production is immediate seduction," he says in an aside, and proceeds to administer treatment. A goddess intrudes and soon beguiles him back to Elysium. The disappointed Soprano is certain...
...Orthodontist Spencer R. Atkinson of Pasadena, Calif, saw a fresh danger in TV: children sitting around by the hour, or lying on their bellies, with their chins cupped in their hands, may push their jaws out of shape...
Gratitude. Near Hopland, Calif., Mo torist Jewett Daniels obligingly gave a push to a stalled car, was accused of shov-ng "too hard" by its three occupants, who stoned him, stabbed him, tossed him over a bank, drove away...
North Carolina has already handed the Crimson both its opening season defeats, but the match today should be no push-over for the Tar Heels. Barnaby's proteges have had a chance to put in some practice since the spring trip to Dixie...
Stormy Weather. In Wichita, when Robert Steven refused to push a stalled car from a flooded intersection for fear his own auto would stall, eight angry men piled out, ripped the hood ornament off Steven's auto and poured water on the back seat...