Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School dominated play from the first. In the scrum (a sort of push-of-war) they consistently out-shoved the Crimson to get possession of the ball. In the line in (similar to basketball's jump ball, but with the entire of lines of both teams participating), the B-School also prevailed...
...onetime railroad lawyer (Harvard Law '34), Saunders restored the Norfolk & Western to health as its president, was brought over to parent Pennsy in 1963. He has traveled up to 5,000 miles a week by plane and private railroad car, personally calling on coal and grain shippers to push the idea of "unitized" trains to haul their shipments faster and more cheaply...
Krupp's Drang nach Osten-push to the East-is partly based on new European trade patterns. The agriculturally protectionist Common Market keeps out East Europe's traditional food exports, so that the Eastern countries are forced to seek new ways of earning hard currency. They hope to do so by exporting industrial products from the new enterprises built in partnership with Krupp. Ignoring politics, Krupp has pioneered West-East deals in which it provides the technological know-how and much of the machinery to labor-rich Eastern Europe, shares both the risks and profits with Communist governments...
...right spouse; one may have to court many candidates before the one-and-only turns up. "Finally, about the time I opened in Jerico-Jim a little over a year ago, I did find exactly the right teacher, Clair Gelda. She told me, 'You must be careful not to push to the point of losing the wonderful velvet on your voice.'" This "velvet," which is readily apparent in the restrained opening of "Feeling Good" in Roar of the Greasepaint, should not be confused with the quite different, if attractive, breathy tone characteristic of Belafonte or the late Nat King Cole...
Class conflict has substantially perpetuated this dilemma according to Weaver. He said that a plan which facilitates integration is often the least beneficial policy for securing good, low-income housing. He pointed out that it is primarily upper and middle-class Negroes who push for integration, while the lows affluent cannot afford this luxury...