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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco, the pier was jam-packed with welcomers, including a Japanese-American Boy Scout band, two lines of Japanese-American girls dressed in kimonos and carrying paper flags, a Hawaiian merchant trying to push his way up the gangplank with four imperial Stetsons for the Crown Prince and his party, and California's Governor Earl Warren. Akihito waved to them all from the bridge. He shook hands with the governor, read another statement in Japanese ("I shall never forget the magnificent sight of the Golden Gate Bridge, the tranquillity of San Francisco Bay, and the beauty of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Welcome for a Prince | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...imagine she hears you stop, but you knock anyway and you can't tell about the voice that answers, so you push the door and sidle into a little room. You suppose it is a dirty room, like the rest of the theatre, and old, but you don't look. It is very small because she is leaning into a mirror almost in front of you. Then she turns around and you notice for a minute that she is wearing a little house-coat like your aunt buys in Woolworth's and she has makeup...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Down to Eartha | 4/14/1953 | See Source »

...take out some paper and push Across the River and Into the Trees and Time away so you can lean on the table to write. And then you start the usual questions and try not to look up too much...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Down to Eartha | 4/14/1953 | See Source »

Summing up, Manufacturer Allen B. DuMont gloomily said that 1) the CBS decision not to push its system was "very wise"; 2) he did not think the RCA system was as far along as RCA said it was; and 3) though the Chromatic tube had possibilities, it was "four to five years from practical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Color Muddle | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...crucial moment in a long and stalemated discussion, Dibelius got up to preach. His text was Ezekiel 37:22: "And I will make them one nation." And, as he puts it, it was the one sermon of his life that "moved a mountain." The delegates went on to push through the constitution of the Evanglische Kirche in Deutschland (E.K.D.)-the Evangelical Church of Germany. Dibelius, as the leading representative of the Protestant Germany, was elected chairman of its executive council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop in the Front Line | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

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