Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orthodoxy led to his memorable Washington feud with White House Favorite Harry Hopkins. Ickes wanted the Depression relief funds spent through his Public Works Administration on big projects that would pay for themselves, like TVA and the Boulder and Grand Coulee dams. Hopkins, the welfare worker, wanted to push out the money in makeshift WPA projects, so most of it would go directly into wages. They both shoveled out billions while they grappled for power, but it was Hopkins who eventually got the upper hand...
...movement grows apace; fully a third of Manhattan's art shows reflects it, and more & more art lovers claim to love it. Connoisseurs croon over the "technical mastery" of a Jackson Pollock (who dribbles his colors from pails of paint). They borrow such Hans Hofmann phrases as "push and pull on the picture surface" and "empathy in a psychoplastic and rhythmic sense" to praise a Hofmann canvas. When Abstractionist Willem de Kooning admits that he is "still working out of doubt," they can hardly bring themselves to believe...
...heater, etc., while some of the 1952 prices do include extras. Auto men quote factory list prices (usually Detroit), but to figure out his bill a motorist must add on shipping charges, taxes and equipment which is optional. These charges to a customer in New York, for example, can push the bill up as much as $700 on low-priced cars and $1,300 on high-priced models...
Darmouth is expected to open with the same team that beat the Crimson in overtime 69-59 last month. Six foot eight Paul Wisdom, one of the best shots in the Eastern League, will be the center, with push-shot specialist Bill Biggs and Kent Calhoun at the guards...
...capitalized on this right and now publishes, from Boston instead of Cambridge, the Student Outline series--Hy-Marx. In 1948, a survey of Square best-sellers found that Segel's Student Outlines headed the list. A headline in the CRIMSON read: "`C'-Hungry Students Push Hy-Marx to Top of Student Best-Seller List...