Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blue-Sky Rumors. The New Frontiersmen had plenty of indicators for their optimism. In April, industrial production climbed a point to another record. The work week rose six minutes, to push the number of hours worked to the highest...
...Brazilians-has fallen on sad times. He was the builder and sole commander of an $85 million, 58-company empire that included 31 newspapers, twelve television stations, 22 radio stations, four magazines, a news agency, two pharmaceutical laboratories and three coffee-and-cattle ranches. He crusaded to push Brazil into the air age, with a campaign that dotted the nation with aviation clubs. He built child-care centers all over Brazil, bullied friends and enemies into filling a $15 million Sāo Paulo art museum with $25 million worth of art. In his heyday, he was the ebullient Brazilian...
...crowd, but nobody got hurt. The Kennedy Administration sponsored the bill, which proposed that a sixth-grade education be proof enough of literacy in federal elections. But, almost as if the whole thing were merely to make propaganda in the North, Kennedy aides made no real effort to push the bill. The Republicans-whose 1960 platform carried a similar proposal-were happy to be cosponsors, but that was about all. And Majority Leader Mike Mansfield ran the proceedings with a kind of tippy-toe Montana courtesy that called for no sessions at night, little interest during...
...protectionists succeeded in raising tariffs in 1824 and again in 1828's "Tariff of Abominations," as its enemies called it. But excessively high tariffs tend to choke off international trade and push up domestic prices, and the Tariff of Abominations stirred up impassioned opposition. South Carolina even enacted a Nullification Ordinance that declared the 1828 tariffs void within the state. The boomerang result of the 1828 Tariff Act was a freer-trade movement that prevailed in Congress from the early 1830s until the Civil War brought on a new surge of protectionism...
...vigor and accuracy of the concluding two movements of Schumann's Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22, however, were the evening's technical highpoint. In the Scherzo (Molto presto marcato). Hellman maintained a push, a drive, which testified to real stamina. The final Rondo (Presto) alternated diving attacks with lyric interludes, and Hellman polished off the sonata with, as ever, controlled, smooth strength...