Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference in Paris last December, it became part of Western European belief that their deliberations constituted a famous victory over John Foster Dulles by the forces of reason. At Paris, so the legend went, the farsighted statesmen of Europe finally overrode Dulles' pathologic distrust of Communists, began to push him, kicking and protesting, toward the one thing that might relieve world tensions-a summit conference with the Russians...
...only the identifiable anti-Americans turned on the U.S. Now the anti-American cry is being taken up by those who fear to be regarded as too friendly to the U.S. Last week, faced with mounting pro-Nasserism and growing opposition to President Camille Chamoun's drive to push through a constitutional amendment that would enable him to run for a second term, the pro-Western government of tiny Lebanon turned on the U.S. with biting acerbity...
...more than Europe-wide. At latest count, the U.S. Information Agency reports a total of 417 TV stations and 15.5 million receivers in operation in the free world overseas (i.e., exclusive of the U.S. and Canada). By year's end, estimates the USIA, headlong expansion will push the figures to 537 stations and 25 million receiving sets. In the Communist bloc, television is burgeoning almost as rapidly. Red countries are now estimated to have 87 stations, are expected to add 28 more during 1958; they have nearly 3,000,000 receivers...
...necessarily efficient or interested departments. If a department is uninterested in the House-orientation proposed for non-honors tutorial, or if it is wildly enthusiastic about the restrictions to be imposed on the content of pass candidacy, it gets free rein to enact the latter impulse and receives no push in the direction of the former...
...labor's blessing; it would be the only labor bill this session; it would rectify at least some of the fraudulent labor-union practices exposed by the McClellan investigating committee. On these grounds an ample bloc of Democrats and liberal Republicans banded under Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to push the bill through. But they reckoned without California's William Fife Knowland...