Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scores of dictators throughout history have hoped to push their power beyond death by trying to decree their succession;most have failed. Did Stalin turn the trick before death took...
...decided that Ave Maria should have a yearly allocation to carry on its work and that the precepts of Father Andres should be written down and distributed to other community schools. Meanwhile another committee, headed by Granada's mayor, set off for Madrid to ask the government to push Father Andres' beatification by the Vatican. But to the gypsies of Sacro Monte, all this was hardly necessary. "We need no Pope's decree," they like to say, "to know that our Don Andres is now a saint in heaven...
...Fuse, No Fuss. A circuit breaker that replaces electric fuses in homes and can't burn out was put on sale by Mechanical Products, Inc. of Jackson, Mich. Called Mini-Breaker, it cuts off current whenever there is an overload or short circuit, needs only a push of a button to restore service. Price: $1.50, or four...
...Jolt for the Premier. But even before Bidault left for home, the clouds drifted back across the sun. Of course, he told newsmen, France still wants revisions in the treaty, one way or other, and it will not even attempt to push the treaty through the National Assembly until the French revisions have been "redrafted and accepted" by the other five powers. "A great step forward could be taken." said Bidault with perhaps more candor than he intended, "if France were in a position to make up her mind as to what she really wants to do." The fact...
...press, freedom of this, freedom of that. Here in Korea, now, such questions are idiotic. Freedom, my friend, is a very relative thing. Now we have a little-more than the Communists, but still not much. But we have enough to start with. Meantime, don't push us too hard, don't ask too much too soon." Paik added: "You will be here for a long time. You will...