Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurley scored half of his 20 points during this spurt, sinking four layups and a push shot, and Dick Woolston added six and Neil Muncaster four...
Though four Ankara professors resigned in protest and students walked out on a one-day strike, the government remained adamant. Police rounded up 300 students for questioning, also began badgering students and professors at Istanbul University. Finally, last week the government announced that it would push through laws virtually abolishing the powers of the university senates and thus bring the universities under complete government control. The case of Dean Feyzioglu had proved to be something of a milestone: it marked the government's determination to end academic freedom in Turkey...
According to Clapp, the system has not always worked perfectly. At first, he had to do push-ups to stay awake, and had trouble falling asleep when he went to bed. He also complains that in the early morning he has to wear a parka because there is no dormitory heat after midnight...
FARM-INCOME RISE is expected for 1957. Agriculture Department says that heavy exports, soil-bank payments, rising population, will push up farmers' income despite rising costs of farm labor, equipment. Higher prices are predicted for pork, fruit, vegetable oils, feed grains. But prices will edge down for eggs, vegetables...
...week: it can indeed. By a 4-to-4 tie vote (Justice Harlan disqualified himself from the case), the court let stand a lower-court ruling that Holophane Co., maker of prismatic glassware, must not only scrap all agreements with foreign companies to split up world markets but actively push its products overseas regardless of foreign laws or its own economic best interest. Snapped Justice Hugo Black, incredulously, during the hearing: "Is what you are saying this: that a distiller must go out and do everything in his power to sell his whisky in a dry state...