Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before their time can lead to trouble. "We often find a good bright boy, say from Middlebury, more satisfactory," a company personnel man once reported. "These Harvard men walk in here on their first jobs and expect a desk twice as long as mine and with half a dozen push buttons...
Nine months ago a kind of companionate marriage was arranged between the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. Along with railway labor leaders, they formed the United Labor Policy Committee to present a solid front in Washington on mobilization policies. The U.L.P.C. wielded considerable influence in Washington, helped push through the new wage policy, and seemed to be there to stay. But last week, as the family settled down around the conference table, the A.F.L. members confirmed reports that they were filing for immediate divorce...
Thus the market confounded both the bears and the financial soothsayers who had thought that the summer slump would give it a permanent downward push. Actually the market never got below June's low of 242.64, and has climbed 27 points since...
...Averell Harriman had done his earnest best to push back the pressures of history which seemed to be closing in on the British-Iranian oil wrangle. He had won a few weeks' respite, brought both sides together and given both a chance to try a second round of negotiations. But despite endless talk, the situation last week again took on its old air of senseless inevitability...
...Tribesmen strategy is to head for a small village, pick up the dialect and try to make friends with the natives, then push on into the hinterland where white men have never been. They are steeled to the fact that conversions will be few & far between, even to the possibility of being received with war hatchets or poisoned arrows. Five missionaries were killed in Bolivia by Indians in 1943. But in spite of hardship and hazard, New Tribes attracts plenty of candidates for its work. There are 190 of them overseas-mostly in South America-living on about...