Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swept the early rounds. Early this year, when President Truman found his omnibus health bill blocked by the AMA lobby (financially the nation's strongest), he attempted to push through a bill giving scholarships to students of medicine and aid to their schools...
Except for Gerry Murphy, who scored six points on push shots in the five minutes he played, the varsity appeared rattled and hurried as it shot. Not only did the shots fail to go in, but they were taken from bad angles and at bad times...
...freshmen captain scored 18 points in the team's opening game against M.I.T., and 14 in the Brown rout. His most effective short is a one-hand push from the corner...
This country has over-hasty in its Korean policy since MacArthur crossed the thirty-eighth parallel before receiving U.N. authorization. A final push to the Yalu River, which would have put American troops right on the border, was an ill-advised move at a time when Chinese Communists were on their way to the U.N. They would have been faced with a fait accompli had they held back their troops, and their bargaining position would have been badly weakened. Therefore they launched an offensive, which so far shows little sign of slowing down...
...cheap way to wage war are dead wrong. The U.S., he likes to point out, has so far spent $300 million on guided missiles ("only a starter"), while Nazi Germany spent $2 billion in developing the V-2 rocket alone-"a comparatively simple device." Says Kindelberger, prophet of the push-button war: "The public has no conception yet of what the guided missile means. The time is coming when the defense of the U.S. will be pretty much automatic...