Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reluctance to "Push...
...National Chairman Paul Butler of Indiana and his California sidekick Paul Ziffren (TIME, Feb. 16) held votes enough to force ratification of Los Angeles by a top-heavy 71-35, after a three-hour debate at the National Committee's session in Washington. The victory was a handsome push for Adlai Stevenson, longtime ally and presidential choice of the liberal Ziffren-Butler team. And this, even more than space, time and smog, was what worried moderate Easterners and conservative Southerners most...
...Parmalee Prentice, a son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller. In the 19205, at his farm in Massachusetts, many strains were combined to produce the superior White Leghorn, now the basic egg-laying hen in the U.S. Today some 30 hatcheries specialize in producing laying pullets, have helped to push U.S. yearly egg production per hen up from...
...also seems unwise to push secrecy to the point where it becomes a fetish. Concealment in any part of the Armed Forces serves as precedent for general secrecy; and while national security requires that much military information be secret, zealous concealment of satellite attempts (a field, incidentally, in which we do not seem to be able to give much succor to the Soviets) fosters an atmosphere inimical to the public knowledge needed to run a democracy. If the Armed Forces stop treating much of their experimentation as mere propaganda they might avoid both premature fanfares and damaging secrecy...
...market was almost there a month ago, but fell back. At that time it had hit 601.74 on an intraday basis, then retreated to the 590s. The quick push-pull led the experts to talk about the possibility of a sharp selloff ahead, of "technical corrections," "testing lows," etc., etc. After that, it did indeed slip some 30 points. But it resumed its climb, with hardly a thought to the worriers...