Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long slump. Crisp yet relaxed, Eden mimicked Labor's Herbert Morrison with a skill that Eden's country-house friends sometimes see, but fellow M.P.s rarely do. By the time he had finished his rollicking imitation of Morrison, in 1948, demanding and getting the guillotine to push through the nationalization of steel, the fight was over. At 5:45 a.m., the guillotine motion was adopted...
Everytime someone piles up at one of these corners, a loud cry goes up for all sorts of exotic safety devices. Cambridge has already installed a traffic signal, but aside from providing sport for those who push the red-orange button, then floc, it has served only to clog traffic during rush hours. And despite the light, drivers still bear north when the road goes west, and they still under-estimate the angle of the turn into Plympton Street...
After this conclusion the vice presidential race was an anti-climax. With a victorious Eisenhower delegation backing Warren, the Governor piled up 617 votes, easily routing a vigorous but unorganized push for McKeldin
...President: "Perhaps the worst of his results is the singing commercial . . . And then there is the fellow who cannot sponsor a program without periodic interruption of huckster chatter into the midst of a great drama." Hoover urged De Forest to redeem himself with another invention: "That is the push button by which we could transmit our emotions instantly back to the broadcasters...
...began to wonder if his "great task" was not, after all, to save his generation. He took up a sequel to Dead Souls, in which he sought to illumine good as in the first volume he had exposed evil. His feet had left the ground; he could not push the work to completion...