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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Observers were also quick to warn that events in Indonesia bore little resemblance to events elsewhere. The Indonesian character is one that shies from reality, hesitates to push things to a conclusion, and has a positive genius for never resolving difficult problems. Whether Untung's coup represented a one-man aberration or was part of a faultily executed Communist plot remained to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: After an Evening with Morning Star | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...meeting will be held tonight to form a Harvard branch of a national organization which intends to push for a basic change in American Far Eastern foreign policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Asia Group To Form Tonight | 10/6/1965 | See Source »

...tells it, "I had a hunch that the next big push after civil rights and poverty would be in the area of international affairs. I thought about the possibility of having a new kind of program with the breadth and depth of the civil rights movement. But the problem was to find a focal point...Where is the logic of the present policy most vulnerable? What in foreign affairs was the equivalent of a Mississippi lunch counter...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: William Sloane Coffin, Jr. | 10/5/1965 | See Source »

...purposes of this organization," explains Coffin, "is not so much to push for a specific new policy as to clarify the fundamental differences of present policy. It is a program with a large educational content and a minimum of direct action. What we are seeking to do is reach the widest segment of the public as possible...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: William Sloane Coffin, Jr. | 10/5/1965 | See Source »

...folks' place on Pennsylvania Avenue, found the whole thing a little scary as she put on her freshman beanie to begin studies at Georgetown University's School of Nursing. Luci relaxed a little when the hazing student nurses in the junior class made her do 25 push-ups for giggling and gave her a freshman nickname: Howard Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 1, 1965 | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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