Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more equitable income tax law, and hopes to eliminate a welter of other tax laws that permit Congress to allot 48% of total federal revenues to "autonomous agencies" such as the Red Cross, universities, private schools and sports clubs. The government is moving ahead with a program to push roads into lush but unused lands near the coast, educating farmers from the Andean highlands to grow cotton, rice, sugar and coffee, and providing them with development credits...
Class consciousness also affected Donnelly citizens' picture of renewal. Many East Cantabridgians fear that there is no adequate provision for their status and continued residence in Cambridge, that the "snooty institutionalists at Harvard and M.I.T." and the equally "snooty Brattle Street contingent" are scheming to push them out of the city. Urban renewal was just more land grabbing. One man said "On holidays, the streets of Donnelly Field are closed for processions and festivities. To let the city come in and destroy our way of life would be to let the godless people take over." The East Cantabridgians are "minutemen...
Donald Lyons (the General), whom many will remember as Agamemnon in the Ajax a few years back, is consistently entertaining. He may push a trifle too hard in places, but The Balcony needs the kind of heavy caricature that Lyons does so well. Without it, only the gimmick remains...
Seven Reasons. In London, British officials produced their own minutes of the Rambouillet talks, which contained no hint that Macmillan had ever proposed a deterrent "independent of America." The Prime Minister, they said, had indeed agreed that De Gaulle should push ahead with his force de frappe, but had pointedly expressed his hopes that it would eventually be assigned to NATO. Snapped one official: "The French have now given seven different reasons why De Gaulle turned down British membership. The only thing they haven't claimed yet is that it was because Scotland beat France 11-6 at rugby...
...able to prevent leftists in the federation and in Indonesia from making North Borneo a Communist enclave hard by the Philippines' outer islands. The British government, which is ardently behind Malaya's plans for Malaysia, stiffly rejected the Philippine claim, gave notice that it would push for the final creation of the new nation...