Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have not seen surpassed in this country since the movie On the Waterfront, also directed by Kazan. Right from the opening polyphonic susurrus, no detail is unimportant. Kazan may underline the similarity of the reactions to Quentin by his two vastly different wives through instructing Quentin to push both of them to the floor simultaneously; or he may devise a subtle background counterpoint against the downstage goings-on. He is ever zealous in taking complex matter that could be frightfully confusing and giving it intelligible shape and theatrical effectiveness...
...much now as I could 40 years ago," says Jones, and it does not seem to be an idle boast. He can still do 30 fast push-ups without breathing hard, credits his energy to eight hours of good sleep a night plus "grace, grass* and gumption." The most important of these, unquestionably, is grace. Jones believes that "the chief business of the Christian is reconciliation." He has spent a lifetime trying to reconcile East and West, white man and black, the world and Jesus Christ...
...rural areas are so segregated that even now only one-half of 1% of Negro pupils go to school with whites. Sanford is not proud of that fact, but apparently feels that it was hard enough to get his new tax through the assembly without also trying to push desegregation by faster means than the present case-by-case court tests...
...rewrites the marriage vows: "Dost thou, Algernon, promise to laugh at this woman's jokes, push the car until it starts and bring her sherry in the bath?" She loathes trading stamps: "If I want to buy a watch, I want to buy a watch; I don't want to buy 27,720 Ibs. of self-raising flour and then get a watch free." She loves sluts, and enlists herself bravely in their cause...
...were introduced, sales rose to a record 2,059,291, and more cars were sold last month than in any other December in history. The industry last week scheduled production at 178,639 cars for the week, an 11 % rise over last year. Detroit's performance helped push the Dow-Jones industrial average to a new record of 776.55 as the stock market recorded seven consecutive daily gains before easing at week...