Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, Winnett denounced his directors as "young upstarts," won his audience's sympathy but not enough of its votes: the merger was approved by more than a two-thirds majority. Federated's acquisition of Bullock's 23 stores (including 16 fashionable I. Magnin stores) will easily push the retailing giant's annual sales ($932 million in 1963) over the billion mark, give it needed strength on the West Coast. It is also another step toward a goal set earlier this year by Federated President Ralph Lazarus: to double sales within a decade...
...spew cars and people at odd angles into these open areas, and the closest thing to navigating a square in Boston is driving around in an open field. Pedestrians close their eyes and sprint across. None of the dulling certitude of Washington here. None of the blandness of our push-button society. It's man against nature, or what passes for nature these days--the motor...
GENERAL MOTORS' Futurama ride glides past floating space stations and aquacopters touring the ocean's depths. What excites the imagination most is what seems most possible (and needed): three dream cars designed to run on automatic highways where the driver would push a route-programmed punch card into a slot, turn over all controls for the trip to an electronic system...
Thurmond had all the best of it: a trim, 170-pounder, he is the Senate's No. 1 physical fitness bug, does not smoke or drink (not even carbonated beverages), just that morning had done 59 push-ups on his office carpet. Yarborough is a fairly flabby 200-pounder...
Meanwhile, a crew of 16 unpacked. Off came the top and sides of the principal truck. Its bed, with six decorative pillars and two staircases permanently mounted upon it, became the main stage. At the push of a button, an apron stage hydraulically unfolded itself into position. Still a third stage level was pulled out and positioned in front of the apron...