Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexican President must make before his term expires-who was to be his successor. Last week from the presidential mansion, Los Pinos, the word was out: Ruiz Cortines' blessing went to his hardworking Labor Minister, Adolfo Lopez Mateos, 47, a moderate leftist who could be counted on to push ahead with Mexico's maturing democracy and its fast-developing free economy...
Others seemed inclined to blame all the beatings on Princetonians. "You guys think you're big shots," one said. "You think you can push us around anytime. But we're just as good as you are. Wait and see. We'll get even...
...varsity came close to scoring two additional times in the second half, but didn't seem to have the necessary push at that point to succeed. Early in the third quarter, the Crimson had the ball, first and eight to go, on the Princeton eight-yard line. But Marsh Levin lost four, and after Halaby got them back again, Johanson's pass to Hooper in the end zone was a little too late and was knocked out of Hooper's hands. Stahura's pass on the option fell short and Princeton took over...
...their journey beyond the veil, the women of Islam have traveled far; they have perhaps still farther to go, and to some the pull of the past is still stronger than the push into the future. But the doffing of the veil is more than a simple feminine gesture. It signalizes, and is almost necessary to, Islam's emergence into the fuller economic life of the 20th century. "That old life," says Lebanon's Dr. Saniyya Habbub, "was without responsibilities. Women had no liberties. Liberty entails responsibility. But it is its own compensation...
...singing one or another of his songs. She is beautiful, and with what elegant sexuality she twists about in tight-curving, fishtail skirts. She is accomplished in a way all her own, seldom raising her voice, never neon-lighting her effects. With equal seductiveness, she spoofs mechanization in Push the Button, or great-men-turned-to-dust in Napoleon, or sings woman-to-woman in Ain't It the Truth or woman-to-man in Take It Slow, Joe. As a much earthier seductress, Josephine Premice jiggles and jabbers with fine mocking verve...