Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dream by getting elected to Congress. He was 29. Normally it takes considerable seniority to win a place on the prestigious Ways and Means Committee. But Mills reached the goal in a mere four years. Speaker Sam Rayburn, impressed with Mills's brains and diligence, gave him a push. And the committee's chairman, North Carolina's Robert ("Muley") Doughton, author of the dictum that the objective of tax policy is to "get the most feathers with the fewest squawks from the goose," soon found studious Congressman Mills a valuable man to have around...
...entered Democratic politics as a fund raiser and spokesman for the oil and gas industries, was elected Governor in 1942, and went to the Senate in 1948. He became the second-ranking Democrat, behind Virginia's Byrd, on the Senate Finance Committee. As such, he last year helped push through much of President Kennedy's tax program, to which Byrd was opposed. In tacit return for Kerr's favors, the President did not push for changes in the oil-depletion allowance...
...barges and 4,100 towboats that ply the inland waterways are less gaudy and singular but more practical than the old sternwheelers. Today's towboats (which actually push rather than pull their tows) have radar, depth recorders, six rudders and two propellers. Their diesel engines generate as much as 9,000 h.p., and can handle strings of barges longer than the Queen Mary...
...player in basketball." is so spring-legged that he can get up above the 10-ft.-high basket and "dunk" the ball with both hands-just as the pros' 7-ft. Wilt Chamberlain does. Forward Ron Bonham (6 ft. 5 in.) is a bull-shouldered marksman whose delicate push shot is accurate from as far away as 20 ft., and whose free-throw record (93%) is the best on the squad. Guards Tony Yates (6 ft. 1 in.) and Larry Shingleton (5 ft. 10 in.) are the playmakers and the key men in the Cincinnati defense. "Yates." says Jucker...
...Beginning of Comfort. But in the 18th century, the family began to push back the intruders and seek privacy. The interior arrangement of the houses changed; rooms began to open on corridors, so that someone going from one end of the house to the other did not have to traipse through every room in between...