Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frey said last night that the increased published literature of the Persian countries and their nationalistic spirit have spurred this sudden, "push" on Iranian studies...
...consequences, Nixon continued, are almost too great to contemplate. "If Viet Nam is lost, all of Southeast Asia is lost. Look at the surrounding countries. Laos-already gone. Cambodia-leaning so far in the direction of Communism that Viet Nam could push it over the brink. Thailand is a country that wants to be on our side, but it is a nation that has always been on the winning side, and this is the only way its independence has survived for a thousand years. Burma is an economic slum, with immense problems and immense pressures, and it will go. Malaysia...
...King and the other Negro leaders are aiming at more than integration of public facilities this year; they are trying to push the Southern Negro's right to register and vote. In Selma, fewer than 1% of 15,100 Negro residents are registered voters (20% are registered in Alabama as a whole). The Justice Department has already brought suit against Alabama Secretary of State Agnes Baggett, charging that the state's registration requirements are unconstitutional-including a 20-page test on government and the Constitution so difficult that Chief Justice Earl Warren might well have trouble passing without...
Both grimacers are converts to the latest twist in isometric exercises, which hitherto-and short of the jowls-have been used increasingly in the past decade as a means of strengthening muscles by making them push, pull and strain. Now a Manhattan nurse named Clara E. Patterson is out with a book showing how the same type of exercise, performed five minutes daily, may replace "the usual 'face-lifting' job" in slimming chins and smoothing wrinkles...
...stay in the background, commit its investment in Brazil to the long term and leave the management to Antunes. Antunes, now 58, is known as one of Brazil's most able and enlightened businessmen. He has started Brazil's first private foundation to support agricultural research, push education and development in backward areas. He has provided ICOMI workers with modern homes, built a fully staffed hospital, set up some of the best schools in Brazil. And all this has been done with little on-the-spot American help: Bethlehem has only one U.S. representative in ICOMI...