Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ross Macdonald, a mystery-story writer of the hard-boiled Southern California school. The Goodbye Look is his 20th book, and it is on bestseller lists -a place where hard-cover mysteries are not often found. In the past few years, critical opinion has been massing behind Macdonald to push him past Dashiell Hammett and especially Raymond Chandler, whose style and settings have clearly influenced him. William Goldman calls Macdonald's mysteries "the finest ever written by an American." Other critics number him among the important novelists of our time, full of profound insights on the great themes...
Amstel toyed with the leaders for a mile and then in the last furlong turned in a stretch run that was more than adequate. He then took his binocular case full of tickets to the hundred dollar cashiers and watched them push a bundle of coarse bills at him--his original investment plus their many happy new companions. He then bid me adieu and strolled to his Merceds in the Aqueduct parking lot and vanished into the Long Island mist...
...Another Push. Statistics have dipped before-only to soar again when the Communists started new offensives. During the period between October 1968 and February 1969, U.S. casualties were relatively low and there was talk then, as today, of a lull. At the time, U.S. commanders warned that the Communists were preparing for another push. Indeed, the lull ended abruptly-and bloodily-with the Communist post-Tet offensive. This time, however, more seems to be involved. "This lull is not merely one of statistics, but more of gut feeling," reports TIME Correspondent Burton Pines from Saigon. "Some of the highest American...
...proposal of May 14, which included a plan for mutual troop withdrawals, caused a reevaluation by the North Vietnamese, then orders implementing any changes would have reached Communist units by mid-June-just about the time the lull began. The theory is bolstered by the fact that a push, expected by American intelligence for June 19 or 20, was hurriedly called off by the Communist command in the South. Another drive, thought to have been scheduled for about July 21, was similarly canceled on short notice. > Hanoi has opted for temporary disengagement in the belief that a lull...
Some of Detroit's blacks and Polish Americans, rep resenting the city's largest minorities, are coming to gether, somewhat gingerly, to push for a ward system of elect ingcity council members, who are now elected at large...