Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Porsche has a "mystical appeal" [Nov. 5]. If you equate mysticism with pure unadulterated pleasure and appreciation of driving the finest of its kind, you are right. Until you sit in the cockpit of this little giant killer and push the tach up to 5,500 r.p.m. in second or third gear, not to mention fourth, you will never know how delightfully sensuous driving...
...William F. Buckley Jr., Roman Catholic editor of the National Review, who had never before run for office. Buckley's announced objectives were to give some visibility to the Conservative Party and to establish it as a more effective force than the Liberal Party, which had helped push Lindsay's bandwagon. Buckley, the wittiest of the candidates, began to enjoy himself, and before the campaign was over it was obvious that his objective was to defeat Lindsay. In the end, he had nothing but his quips to console him, for he mightily aided Lindsay's cause...
...language recipes for "Okrahoma" pecan pie. The mystified Japanese smiled politely, and finally someone pointed out that hardly anyone in Japan had ever heard of pecan pie. Well, boomed Bellmon as he wound up a U.S.-Japan Governors' conference tour, "that's all the more reason to push it. Why, man, this is virgin country for Oklahoma pecans...
...delegates, even moved from his seat as conference chairman to intervene vigorously in the debate. The Common Market's crisis, argued Haekkerup, could lead to a major reshuffle that would produce closer economic and political ties throughout Europe-and EFTA should nudge things along. Reason for the Danish push: though EFTA as a whole runs a chronic trade deficit with the Common Market, the problem is particularly nettlesome for Denmark, which depends on West Germany as a major market for its farm produce. Since the creation of the Common Market, that outlet has shriveled...
...Ever since, the G-men have been following and harassing her. She wants Nero to make them lay off. The fat genius plunges in, following a tortuous, tightly plotted path until a nifty stunt finally traps two agents breaking and entering his house. With that for leverage, he can "push in J. Edgar Hoover's nose" and get the FBI off his client's innocent back...