Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broken leg every five years?" Typical of skiing's expansion is the fact that in a sport once confined to rugged men, a central figure today is a determined and independent Eastern socialite who is not a championship skier, but a man of venture capital whose enterprising push brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the U.S. For a look at the popular sport and its sometimes unpopular man, see SPORT, Bonanza in the Wilderness...
...U.S.S.R. "missile for missile" during the next few years, the Administration has two urgent tasks cut out for it. One is to convince the world-Communists, neutralists, allies and the U.S.'s own citizens -that the missile gap will not mean a defense gap. The other is to push Minuteman and Polaris as fast as funds and priorities can push them. If there must be a missile gap, however efficiently it is filled by SAC's bombers, the less time it lasts the better...
Hoping to avoid any antilabor tag, Nixon and Secretary Mitchell (who urged the committee, boosted Nixon for chairman) are planning to look into all cost-push factors, not just rising wages. Example: in the featherbed-ridden construction industry, a sure target for investigation, the committee will delve into such nonwage matters as outmoded building codes and novel, cost-cutting house designs...
...mining." Indications last week were that the project is progressing. At the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge installation, tar sands were being tested to see whether the radioactivity will be held safely underground. The U.S. will probably agree to provide A-bombs for Canada to push the experiment...
...missiles can be used practically only as defensive weapons. But until a disarmament agreement is reached, missiles and nuclear bombs are also, by their very existence, instruments of aggressive diplomacy. If both sides concede that total war would be cataclysmic, a sizable advantage in weaponry enables one side to push its case much more firmly. A weaker opponent cannot rationally afford to meet his opponents' raise, especially if each side knows the other's hand. If the Soviets can marshal a substantial missile margin they can force peripheral issues and fragment our alliances by bullying smaller nations into neutrality...