Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference at Caracas' White Palace, his reasoning seemed to come a little clearer. Seven times during the 45-minute session the crisply khakied admiral was asked if he would be candidate for President when regular elections are held next November. Seven times he hemmed, hawed and refused to push his khaki cap out of the campaign ring...
...were empowered to report, not to halt, any infiltration of the border. The fact was that, at the moment, the real difficulty was not so much the direct outside help as the maneuverings of Pan-Arab elements inside Lebanon, led by ex-Premier Saeb Salam. The odd reluctance to push matters to a fighting conclusion stemmed from the realization, among many Christians and Moslems alike, that prosperous Lebanon could exist only as a dual state of Moslems and Christians, and if events were pushed to an armed test of the West against Nasserism, no one would gain...
...minister stalked out. Then the councilors passed a resolution demanding that women be given the right to vote and to run for the council. This was a particularly nasty blow for the Prince. As all Monaco knows. Princess Grace of the American Kellys had just about persuaded him to push through woman suffrage himself. But any action he might now take would seem to be merely a surrender to the council. Throughout the trying week. Rainier kept stonily silent in his pink palace. After all, Monaco was still Monaco, and royalty had other duties to perform. For one thing, there...
...result of the population rise is heavy pressure for birth control, and early in Bootstrap the government unabashedly provided free contraceptives from 160 dispensaries. Under attack from the dominant Roman Catholic Church, the regime dropped word to clinic doctors not to push the practice. But postnatal sterilizations, at the request of the mother, are common; one estimate is that a fifth of all women 15 to 40 have been sterilized...
...sooner had Bootstrap going well four years ago than the poet in him came out. Was Puerto Rico turning materialist, losing its gracious leisure, abandoning its soul? Recalls a member of his staff: "He began talking about how industrialization was raising cities but destroying old values. He used to push a statue of Gandhi toward Moscoso while Moscoso was talking figures, rates, profits. One day Moscoso exploded: 'Stop shoving that statue at me! If I take it seriously, we will have no economic progress...