Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just as the world seems able to push from its mind the memory of the Abomb, so does Hiroshima itself. While the 30,000 pilgrims attended the commemorative service last week, nearly as many crowded into a nearby ballpark for a baseball game. As night fell, big bright neon signs flashed invitations to amusement centers. The broad Ota River glittered with floating lanterns, and fireworks burst their colored lights against the sky in celebration of the joyous Buddhist Festival of Lanterns. Adjoining the grisly Peace Memorial Data Hall in Nakajima Park is a modern, air-conditioned hotel that caters...
...photographer takes his picture with Rexall's top brass, and the company often persuades the druggist's home-town paper to run it. Dart also gives the druggist an incentive to push Rexall products more vigorously than competing brands by selling at such low wholesale prices that the druggist can often get a bigger markup on Rexall products than others...
...juveniles that have cropped up in the past couple of years. His portrayal of Ally is remarkable; and the part is unusually long and demanding. Teena Starr is appealing as the young, lonely widow. Avril Gentles holds Sophie under control much of the time, but has a tendency to push her acting into burlesque. Donna Person and Edward Finnegan provide outstanding support...
Item: as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Personnel from 1953 to 1958-he held the job longer than any other Navy officer in 75 years-he was one of the few flag-rank officers who fought the Navy's real Lord Plushbottoms to push the promotion to flag rank of Hyman Rickover, prickly pioneer of the atomic submarine. One day, to a group of young naval officers, he summed up his philosophy of leadership in a way that defines his value to the nation today. Said he: "You men probably do not think...
...college trip to Europe, joined up in 1931, rose through the global ranks to the Policy-Planning Staff as specialist on Southeast Asia. Assigned by President Eisenhower last year to crowded, humid Beirut, spruce and able Ambassador McClintock ran a polished show, still found time to keep trim with push-ups and strolls at the far end of his black poodle's leash. As Lebanon drifted toward civil war, he was credited with recommending the U.S. policy of keeping President Camille Chamoun at polite arm's length until Chamoun put his own political house in order. Iraq changed...