Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor was lackluster, but he was known as a fine, friendly and formidable campaigner. Evans at first appeared withdrawn and diffident. At one point, visiting a highly automated Spokane factory, he spent more time examining the machines than he did shaking hands with workers. "My managers had to push me away," Evans recalls, adding wistfully: "But those machines were fascinating."57-Count 'Em. As the campaign continued, Evans wound up as a public personality, came off to advantage in a series of debates by articulating his moderate Republican stance. He frankly suggested that he would pattern his administration after...
...wasn't until I was satisfied that Murph is strictly his own man-he doesn't owe anybody anything-that I agreed to lend a hand." No Instant Sage. As a Senator, Murphy will likely push hard on issues of particular California interest, such as desalinization projects to ease the state's water problems and increased defense spending in the hope of pumping more military dollars into the plants back home. Generally, he will probably vote as a conservative on fiscal matters, a cautious liberal on civil rights, and as a selective Senator on such matters...
...also hope to have President Johnson at a disadvantage when they meet, as they are likely to, this winter. He has other weapons than the threat of dropping out of NATO at his command, however, and it will be interesting to see how he uses them. Will France push for Red Chinese admission to the U.N.? Will de Gaulle continue to embarass us in Vietnam? Will France attempt to make our trade relations with the Common Market particularly difficult? The General is acutely aware of the inter-relationships of diplomacy--one chess piece may be sacrificed for another which...
...West Side around Amsterdam Avenue and 81st Street. But the social life should be interesting. Among other tenants officially housed in the building are two potentates purged by Khrushchev, former Premier Vyacheslav Molotov and Red Army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, as well as several comrades who gave K. the push, including Suslov and Kosygin...
...1790s the Western movement had reached the Mississippi, and the frontiersmen saw nothing in the way of a final push to the Pacific except Blackfoot Indians, grizzly bears and federal bureaucrats. Though President James Monroe in 1825 had forever prohibited any U.S. settlement beyond the upper Mississippi and the present states of Missouri and Arkansas, the frontiersmen paid no attention. By the time Monroe's proclamation reached the frontier, it had been pushed as far west as Spanish Texas and Santa Fe. The grizzlies were similarly surmountable. Pathfinder Jedediah Smith jerked his mangled head from the jaws...