Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, businessmen need to give a bigger push to the trade fairs by sending more of their company displays and brainpower. The Department of Commerce hopes to get enough business support so that private companies alone will represent the U.S. at fairs in Western Europe and the Americas. Then the Government can concentrate its tightly budgeted official displays in the most vital cold war arenas-the emergent countries of Asia, Africa and the Communist world. Says Commerce Department Trade Fair Boss Harrison T. McClung: "Private industry itself is the instrument that can most effectively tell the story of free enterprise...
...heavy for a Sunday afternoon in June." It was perhaps a half hour longer than it had to be, but the skilled See It Now team made a formidable assignment seem like easy going. They showed not only the newly arrived marvels of "an age when the buttons push themselves" but also "the frustration of displaced workers and the cool, four-day-week visions of scientists, labor leaders and industrialists. The machines alone made exciting viewing: contraptions that land airplanes automatically, spot cancerous tissue through the microscope, run vast chemical plants, tell at a glance the position of every plane...
...Tried. After establishing a sudsy rapport with the proprietors, Strickland would head for the action, which, he soon discovered, was usually near the men's room. "I'd just walk on back toward the men's room," he explains, "maybe acting a little unsteady, and then push on into the gambling room...
...same energy, the push and persistence, is a potential source of strength. Just as our industrial wealth can become the platform for a richer culture, the ambition, channelled into other courses, can be the impetus to improvement. At least it is better than passivity, or lethargic complacency...
...ordinary matter may have been created at the same time, and are perhaps still being created. Even if the atoms of opposite type are born in the same parts of space, they will seldom meet and suffer annihilation. Gravitational attraction will pull similar atoms together, while antigravitational repulsion will push dissimilar ones apart. The final result will be the segregation of matter and antimatter in separate galaxies...