Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name appears on the cover and the table of contents, a summary of his distinctions appears in the Advocate Notes, and the author of the foreword proffers him "Our gracious acknowledgment"--a pretty way to put it--for his (relatively passive) part in making the issue possible. To push a famous name so blatantly is irritating and jarringly out of place in an otherwise professional production...
...perfect expression of 100% volume." But he rips into the plain white with a bull-like energy. One slashing stroke or bright blob deserves another. Each changes the nature of the canvas, and therefore the strategy of attack. Hofmann describes the process as creating "push and pull on the picture surf ace." He insists it is no child's play; it requires "empathy in a psychoplastic and rhythmic sense...
...this year's captain, and Murphy were both regulars last season. Both have lots of experience and are steady if not spectacular scorers. Stevenson is six feet, three inches tall, and a determined player under both offensive and defensive boards. Murphy, who has a deadly one-handed push shot, is a very sound defensive player...
...Crimson is still no powerhouse. But it has unquestioned guts and courage. It is developing into a good Ivy League football team which nobody will push around. Opponents who once openly pitied Harvard will have to conserve their sympathies for home consumption...
People: The first settlers, who, some theorize, may have come by land bridges from the Asiatic mainland, were aboriginal Negrito pygmies. Then, 6,000 years ago, came Indonesians in boats, to push the Negritos into the interior; the Indonesians in turn were pushed back by a wave of Malays. When Ferdinand Magellan landed in 15 21 he found a people with its own written language, government by tribal law, a strict moral code, a thriving commerce. Magellan, before he was killed by tribesmen, named the place San Lazaro, but later Spain changed it to Philipinas, in honor of Prince Philip...