Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mills will presumably draft his own tax bill. If he cannot push it through Congress, there may be no tax bill at all this year. "Wilbur may not be able to get the kind of bill he wants," says a member of Ways and Means. "But he can kill a bill he doesn't want...
When he set out to revamp high school physics in 1956, M.I.T. Physicist Jerrold Zacharias sparked a chain reaction of reform that is beginning to push all U.S. education toward dramatically new ways of learning...
...year in which the profit squeeze became not only an unpleasant phrase but an unhappy reality. When corporate executives could not push their sales up, they set out to work their costs down...
...army GHQ with armored cars. Colonel Nahlawi got the point. In another country, he and his men might have been jailed, or even executed for treason. But Koudsi, who keeps a prepared resignation in his desk just in case the soldiers should some day win, chose not to push his luck. Escorted aboard an airliner and given $1,000 apiece to cover their expenses, the rebels were sent back to diplomatic posts-in civvies...
...shooting repertory includes such inimitable specialties as the "Dipper Dunk" (in which he simply stretches up and lays the ball in the basket), the "Stuff Shot" (in which he jumps up and rams the ball through the net from above), and the "Fadeaway Jump"-a delicate, marvelously coordinated push shot from 15 ft. away that defensive men literally cannot block without fouling. At the free-throw line, where he is most uncomfortable-and most criticized-Chamberlain does a journeyman's job. He holds the all-time league record for foul shots in one season (835), once sank...