Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Social Director's office was the scene of frantic activity yesterday, as Director Karin Ordahl and her girl Friday, Mary Jo Martin, prepared for the coming week-end. So varied were the offerings, the young ladies found it hard to decide which activity to push the most...
...Enough Bodies. This year, with a backlog of 66 bills still stalled in committee, Premier Ikeda ordered his men to push them through before the Diet session closes July 6. When the government party recently used its majority to force a vote on a controversial relief-law revision, cow-walking was no longer enough. Fists and ashtrays started to fly. Battling lawmakers shouted: "Respect parliamentary procedures!" The brawling later spread to the cabinet committee, where five bills were stalled. Socialists massed around the committee-room door to prevent Chairman Tadanori Nagayama from entering...
...aspect of Flint life. "Educators these days are concentrating on geniuses," he says. "We don't neglect them, but we're more interested in hoi polloi." His new $128 million gift to the foundation has not been earmarked for any specific purposes. Explains Mott: "My push is largely in the direction of people who have less opportunity, so we're promoting education for people who haven't had the opportunity to learn...
...plane (the X-22) that can take off and land almost vertically. The odd-shaped craft will have a 39-ft. rear wing, stubby forward wings and four 7-ft.-diameter propeller ducts that can be directed at the ground for vertical thrust. When horizontal, they will help push the plane to 350 m.p.h...
...accident. As a worker in Nomura's research department before the war, Okumura admired Merrill Lynch's corporate philosophy of people's capitalism, made a study of the American firm's operations. When he took over as head of Nomura in 1948, he began to push widespread stock ownership. He put ads in newspapers, made scores of lectures and even organized tours to plants to show potential small investors what they would own a part...