Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Widespread unemployment once made Italian workers terrified of their bosses, but terror has turned to testiness. With jobs aplenty in present-day Italy, strikes are as common as wolf calls on the Via Veneto. Last week 800,000 textile and chemical workers struck to back demands that would push labor costs up 70%. Radio and TV employees entered the second month of a bitter dispute with management over higher pay and job reclassifications...
...leftists without raising their hackles as Karamanlis did. Papandreou has salted his top Cabinet posts with fiscal conservatives, is pledged primarily to rural redevelopment and to raising the standards of Greek education. With Greece's attention focused on the ailing King, Papandreou was in a sound position to push his program...
...have read widely in Auden's poetry and prose, The Disenchanted Island is helpfully systematic. The book is full of important insights, sunk in the tedium of unselective research. But for readers who have not thoroughly considered the poems and important essays, this book may push in the wrong direction. It might be better, instead, to continue reading the poetry itself...
...windmill for grinding pigments, a hydrogen-oxygen motor, and a speaking machine "capable of pronouncing the Lord's Prayer, the Creed and Ten Commandments in the Vulgar Tongue." To improve the British climate, he suggested that the navies of the nations of the Northern Hemisphere band together to push the ice masses of the polar regions into the southern oceans. He was the founder of the famed Lunar Society, consisting of a group of scientific eccentrics whose habit of meeting by the light of the full moon, reputedly so that they could see their way home after dinner, eventually...
...remains hidden today, however, is what we should expect de Gaulle's visit next month to unearth. The General is hoping that Latin uneasiness with U.S. pressures on Panama after the Canal Zone riots and South American distaste at Johnson's "over-reaction" to minor provocation at Guantanamo will push many of the southern continent's leaders toward the French camp...