Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read his message to Congress on the State of the Union. When he finished 45 minutes later, he had made little news. The U.S. must continue to stand fast against world Communism, with military power and with economic aid to friends in Europe and Asia. More specifically, it must push through an honorable armistice in Korea, act on the Japanese Peace Treaty, complete a network of Pacific security pacts, and help integrate the German Federal Republic into the defense scheme of Western Europe. On the domestic front, Truman soft-pedaled the Fair Deal, concentrated on defense...
...from the studio, Marlene is apt to turn languid. "Acting just happens to be my profession," she says. "I could live very well without it. I have no ambition. I've never had the message. I'm afraid that all my life I've needed a push and never done things for myself." She recalls that Noel Coward recently described her as a realist and a clown: "He's right. Of course, I never show my clown side to the public. It doesn't go with the other thing I advertise...
...Belgium, after watching miners struggling to push loaded coal cars over an uneven tunnel floor, a West Virginia mining engineer named Neil Robinson offered to slash production costs from $14 to $11 a ton-if given a free hand. The skeptical Belgians agreed; Robinson has since set to work injecting U.S. zest and know-how into one of Belgium's oldest and deepest pits-the Good Hope Mine. If he succeeds, and the chances are that he will, MSA hopes to use the "Robinson Experiment" to spark similar coalface production drives throughout Western Europe...
Weak, weaker, weakest is the order in which the varsity swimming team is taking on its opponents this season, and the first league meet with Pennsylvania tomorrow night should be a push-over for Hal Ulen's varsity...
After the Yardlings had built up a 7 to 2 lead in the first quarter, Huntington must have told his boys to take it easy. Throughout the remaining two periods his boys skated, passed, and foisted with a becoming facility, but they did not push the attack...