Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the deluge, the varsity fought back gamely but futilely, for the height, speed, and finesse of the visitors were clearly too much for the Crimson. At 14:-45, the varsity pulled within eight points on a Donohue push shot, but Dartmouth went into a semi-freeze, working the ball around the outside until someone got clear for a lay-up shot. In the last five minutes, in fact, the Indians outscored the varsity, 15 to 5, despite a full-court press...
...drift of both opinion and practice in the 20th century is indeed toward the centralized welfare state, but moving with the drift is not necessarily the fitting role for a nation's leaders. And continued deficit financing, with its burdensome interest charges and its push toward inflation, can only weaken the fiscal underpinnings of an economic system that has done better by more people than any planned economy ever dreamed...
...lines of Detroit, 15, 20, 25 years ago." Union leaders realize that they have come a long way since then. Says Jerry Holleman, president of the Texas A.F.L.-C.I.O. council: "We have made substantial gains in the past few years and are at a point where we do not push as hard...
That was it. Johnson left Convair experts to work out the details, returned to Washington to push the program through. The decision was made to keep the project secret, and secret it was: no more than 88 people ever knew of it. One day early last week, a few Army Signal Corps technicians showed up discreetly in the President's office, recorded the satellite message that Ike himself had written, tucked it away till it was needed at Cape Canaveral. Even the button pusher who fired the Atlas from the Cape blockhouse did not know that the bird contained...
...they got higher wages or another man to help them. Slingenberg told them to fire up the furnace or get fired themselves. When they burst into his office to protest as he was busy with a caller, he angrily ordered them out of the office, and gave one a push. For two weeks nothing happened. Then, one by one, 42 Chinese servants and staffmen began to leave...