Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...care, cooking gas, fresh vegetables, beef, milk. Down: house furnishings, men's and boys' clothing, fresh fruits, pork, eggs, poultry (lowest level since December 1942), restaurant meals (first decline since June 1956). The long-range outlook as most experts saw it: renewed upcreep in prices under the push of wage raises and heavy Government expenditures. But before the climb started, harried consumers found it nice to rest on a plateau...
...pesos in their pockets. They mill through Sears, Roebuck, buying made-in-Mexico soap, blankets, toys and washing machines. They sit in chrome chairs along barbershop and beauty-parlor walls, waiting and listening to the hum of electric clippers and dryers. Young wives come in fashionable maternity middy blouses, push wire carts through the aisles of bright supermarkets, squeeze cellophane-wrapped loaves of Bimbo bread and Bimbollos (rolls). Husbands buy bottles of the new, high-quality tequila (from the modernized distilleries in the town of Tequila, 35 miles away) and Sangrita, a tequila chaser made of a secret formula...
...wait a minute. Careful there, Mack, you're stepping on my sneakers ... I hear ya' man, don't snap your elbows on my ear ... I mean, like don't push ... the jacket, the jacket, man, you're wrinkling the bird; that's an engraved eagle ... okay, okay, I'm going ... the hula hoop is choking me ... acchhh...
...Pushing Buttons. Shari's surface-simple formula: "Children are so open, it's easy to see what's in their minds. If I push a button, I get a response.'' Shari gets her best responses with four hand puppets-named Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy and Wing Ding-who trade wisecracks with her, play geography and spelling games, croak weekly through 20-odd songs. Shari has a sure hand with animals (at home, in a Manhattan apartment with second husband Jeremy Tarcher, she keeps a collie, an owl monkey, a parrot, and a mink...
...Stanley pioneered commercial TV in Britain in the day when the nation was generally against commercial TV on principle. Led by Collins, who walked out of a $10,400-a-year job as a BBC-TV program director, because his bosses were too stuffy, the three managed to push through the Television Act that established commercial TV, set up four TV studios to broadcast...