Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Healthy or Destructive? As far as the N.E.A. could tell from observing them, such organizations capitalize on any local school dispute, move in to push their doctrines during the ruckus, and try to spread the impression that the whole school system is riddled with Reds. "Up to last year," said Richard Kennan to the N.E.A. last week, "we felt it best to ignore their attacks. Now, we have clear evidence of coalition in their efforts . . . We had to come out slugging." The N.E.A.'s recommendation to the public: learn the difference between healthy criticism and destructive criticism, then come...
...Reds were ready to quit in Korea, the West could be sure it was only because they wanted to use their energies elsewhere. With their armies no longer bleeding, the Chinese Communists could now push harder at Indo-China and the rest of South Asia. Relieved of the burden of supplying a deadlocked war in Korea, world Communism could now turn more energetically to the tactics that suited it better. The world was speckled with bone-dry tinder piles-Berlin, and all of Germany, Yugoslavia and, on top of the list, Iran...
...soldier in the front line, waiting last week for another Chinese push -or perhaps for peace, he was not sure-the war in Korea was still a grim and dirty business, and his chief concerns were those of all soldiers: to stay alive, to fight as best he could, to get home as soon as he could. To strategists, after one year of fighting in Korea, the story of the "dirty little war" had already become a closely studied textbook...
...records, a good deal of acerbic humor and a better-than-usual collection of puns. Starting off with a fictitious award called a "Ludwig," from a fictitious radio & TV magazine called See Hear!, the comics go on to rib educational shows with "Science Speaks," a program designed to "push back the frontiers of science-right back to where they were...
...state universities like Michigan, Illinois, and California, as well as private colleges like Stanford and Oberlin--grew in academic stature and thus gained appeal for men across the country. At first, Harvard, with her tremendously strong reputation could ignore the competition. Armed with National Scholarships, Harvard could continue to push for a national college without any real worries of having to step up recruiting...