Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Niles's job was to push minority causes before the President, placate the sponsors when he failed, and work hard to keep their votes in the Democratic corral. He was probably more responsible than any other man in the Truman Administration in 1948 for swinging U.S. policy behind the Zionists and making possible the birth of Israel...
Vinson, who does more to push through the Administration's military bills than any other man, got his dander up. "You might pick up the paper tomorrow morning and find where the Army had taken over the Statler Hotel," he told the House. "Your responsibility as it stands today would be merely to foot the bill . . . It is the people's money that you are spending . . . This bill is where you can save millions of dollars." Vinson quoted from the 1944 report of the Truman Investigating Committee, which raised hob about the Army's hotel leases...
...second Chinese push was lighter than the first. Instead of the two-pronged offensive which they used the last time, they tried to ram through U.N. lines at one point; U.N. officers in Korea speculated that the Chinese might try to follow through with a series of such one-punch attacks. No one in Korea doubted that the Chinese would try again. But the basic situation-Chinese hurling masses of manpower against relentless U.N. firepower-would not change, unless the Reds decide to commit their air force...
...lights are operated by push buttons, and replace the old green blinking lights with red and yellow walking lights. 'Cliffedwellers will not be able to halt traffic indefinitely, however. The lights must blink green at least 37 seconds in, every minute...
...announced Spencer, will open the facilities of its huge Harvey, Ill. research laboratory to any U.S. inventor with a promising idea in the field of petroleum. The company will test such ideas free of charge, and if the results justify it, provide the technicians and money for research to push them to completion. In return, the inventor will be required to let Sinclair use the process royalty-free, but since the inventor holds the patent, he may also sell it to anybody else. The news was hardly out before scores of ideas began flooding Sinclair's Manhattan offices...