Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long, Steep Climb. With such factors in mind-plus the fact that even in the Midwest the farm vote is less than 20% of the total-Adlai Stevenson's big farm push seemed to be winning back only Missouri (where his prospects look good) and Oklahoma (where he. appears to have a decided edge), along with a chance for Minnesota. Given those three and the South (although Florida and border-state Kentucky cannot be considered solid for the Democrats), Stevenson would still fall considerably short of the necessary 266 electoral votes...
Minister Eden-Christ Church men at that, should countenance "this thing." He added darkly: "Duncan Sandys, brash, hard-faced, inhuman man that he is, was doubtless able to push it through because the Cabinet was exhausted by the Suez crisis...
Brother Act. The rule of Nicaragua fell on Tacho's sons even before their father's death. Plump, self-effacing Luis, 34, who by grace of a push from his father was First Designate (Vice President), took on Tacho's executive duties and-after Tacho died-the blue-and-white sash of office. West Point-educated Anastasio Jr. ("Tachito"), 32, commander of the 4,100-man Guardia National, jailed something like 3,000 suspected enemies of the regime, personally tested many of them with a newly imported lie detector,*soon freed all but 300. He unearthed...
Journal, "that in the universal push to abolish illiteracy, we may create the phenomenon of literates illiterate in every higher sense...
...pattern set two years ago by Tim Anderson, and continued by Bill Meigs last season. He is strong, and can be very tough on defense. The other guard is a very promising sophomore named Hal Anderson. Standing 6-3, and weighing 218 pounds he will be very hard to push around...