Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, President Eisenhower told his press conference that, in the opinion of his economic advisers, "it is reasonable to assume some upturn sometime toward the middle or just after the middle of the year." To a newsman who asked whether the Administration might push for a tax cut if the economy failed to perk up at midyear, Ike replied yes, added that there is such a thing as "going too far with trying to fool with our economy...
Watching the web weave around him, Marv Griffin last week summoned newsman and investigating senators to his ornate office, snapped off a defiant but undiplomatic double negative: "I ain't got no apologies to make." Griffin's enemies gleefully prepared to push more evidence under senatorial eyes, wondered meanwhile when the governor would return to his favorite role of No. 1 Southern white supremacist. Said one Griffin opponent: "Every time he gets in trouble, he talks about segregation...
...willing. But he thought Grim was starting just a little too fast and he hung back, well off the pace. When Grim faded, Ron got up on his toes and ran for the record. But he was running all alone. There was no one left to push him to that necessary extra effort. He scored his 22nd consecutive indoor victory by 30 yds., and his time of 4:04.6 missed the world indoor mark by one second...
When it came time to return to earth, a 10-lb. push would separate a spaceship from its natural merry-go-round. Free of the little moon, it would have satellite velocity, 3,000 m.p.h. in the case of Deimos, so only a moderate additional push would free it from Martian gravitation and start it on the long voyage home...
...faced old Italians come to roll bocce balls for 30? a game in the indoor courts behind the bar, or to drink a poncino (coffee laced with brandy) and play long, silent games of pinochle. But now and then the pinochle stops in mid-meld, and the bocce bowlers push through the swinging door into the bar to stand watching the small stage. Occasionally, as a mark of highest respect, the old men take off their hats...