Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pain. Modern concepts of natural childbirth were first suggested more than 40 years ago by British Obstetrician Grantly Dick Read, who taught that bearing children is not necessarily painful, that pain comes only because of fear, which may interfere with contractions of uterine muscles that open the womb and push the child out through the birth canal. Pavlovian psychologists in Soviet Russia took Dick Read's idea one step farther. Both fear and pain, they reasoned, could be overcome by conditioning. During the 1940s, Soviet doctors began educating mothers to be unafraid of childbirth, and by 1951 hospitals...
...consensus of many Northern moderates: "Don't you recognize your responsibility to the Party and the country? When you're up against a Goldwater, you sacrifice for party harmony or lose not only Mississippi but the nation, maybe the world. I'm for you morally, but if you push this to the floor I'll vote against...
...national flag for Canada-three red maple leaves on a white ground bracketed in blue. He wanted it to replace the old Red Ensign, envisioned it as a bright symbol of Canada's independent nationhood. Last week Pearson finally had to admit defeat. He gave up trying to push his flag through a stalemated Parliament and dumped the whole thing in the lap of a 15-man interparty committee, which now has six weeks to find a brand-new design...
While the auto settlement gave a big push to the market, it was not responsible for its basic momentum: the market had been moving up on bullish business news for five straight sessions before the Detroit settlement. The auto agreement opened the way to further increases by raising the prospect of mild inflation and by removing what seemed to many the last immediate obstacle to continued prosperity...
More Jobs for Teens. As pensions are raised toward more generous levels, labor is making a big push for earlier retirement to go with them. A quarter of this year's new contracts that have granted higher pension benefits also include provision for earlier retirement. The Chrysler-U.A.W. pact encourages workers to retire at 60 instead of 65, even makes retirement possible at 55. In other contracts signed this year, Sinclair Oil, Westinghouse and RCA reduced normal retirement age from 65 to 62. The trucking industry granted retirement at $250 a month after 30 years of service, making...