Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some formulas slightly to please the British palate, created two new ones especially for English teatime, even scaled down the ingredients in the mix to fit the smaller cake tins used by British housewives. To back Betty up, General Mills spent nearly $1,000.000 on an advertising campaign to push layer cake, Boston cream pie, brownies and honey-spice cake. But no luck. Betty has been called home in disgrace, and last week General Mills was closing down its operations in Britain...
...predictable pattern to the way the New York Yankees win the American League pennant every year. For the first two months or so they hobble along, beset by injuries and slumps, while other teams battle for the lead. Then about the middle of the year they pull themselves together, push the other clubs aside, and take over first place on a permanent basis...
...registration in Georgia. Out of such idealistic activism, so strikingly missing in the apathetic '50s, has come a more down-to-earth student project. The newest task is tutoring thousands of Northern Negro children who lack the skill or the incentive to keep up in school. A timely push from a collegian can change their lives and the tutor's as well. Such is the aim of the Northern Student Movement, a loose-knit, Yale-based fraternity of 2,200 collegians at 50 campuses, from M.I.T. to Oberlin to Swarthmore. They give several nights a week to tutoring...
Harvard officials reportedly feel that the present tuition does not go far enough toward meeting the Med School's annual operating expenses of about $5 million. Tuition now provides about 14 per cent of the operating cost ($750,000), but officials hope that the hike will push the figure closer to 20 per cent...
...Cornell is favored," said heavyweight coach Harry Parker, "but it's not too clear by how much." Bunched behind the Big Red as its chief threats are the Crimson, M.I.T., Yale, Columbia, Wisconsin, and Penn. Any of these six "could push and beat Cornell" Parker said...