Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. Anyone with enough derring-do to push through the wooden tunnels disguising the Met's current dishevelment (it's installing air conditioning) will discover...
...government report released Saturday was not the only reason given for giving up cigarette smoking. "It was the final push," reported one Cliffie who complained of a sore throat. Another girl denied that she abstained for health reasons and said that "It just wasn't a pretty habit...
...rare, though insurance companies claim that the highly publicized examples raise the average size of all awards and settlements. What bothers the underwriters more than the occasional big payoff is the widespread evidence of fraud. In one macabre conspiracy, a Los Angeles man arranged to have a friend push his car off a cliff, smash both his legs with a padded brick, and place him and his drugged wife beside the wreck. "No one would ever believe that I was crazy enough," boasted the man; the plot was uncovered-and the conspirators jailed-only because his friend got frightened...
...auto and the Japanese housewife to want an automatic rice cooker. This same desire drives Congolese men to insist on neatly starched white shirts and Venezuelans to save for a vacation at the seashore. Last year consumers almost everywhere had a bit more to spend, and provided the major push to their economies by spending it for a better life. Their spending helped push world production of autos, appliances, and the steel that goes into them, to new records...
Ladybug Ladybug. May 32, 1964. Russia and the U.S. stand eye to eye, missile to missile. In a small American town, a secretary sits in the office of an elementary school and wonders nervously what millions of ordinary people are wondering that day: Will some madman push the panic button? And if he does will the bomb fall on-ZZZRRRZZZRRRZZZRRRZZZRRR...