Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, Marshal Georgy Zhukov's Russian troops were bogged down 35 miles east of the German capital; they had been struggling for two months against the savage opposition of Hitler's Eastern Front armies to gain a foothold across the Oder River. Simpson asked if he should push on to liberate Berlin. Instead, he was told by Eisenhower to consolidate his position while spreading troop units north and south along the Elbe's west bank. As Simpson did so, the Soviet army swarmed across the Oder in force; Berlin fell to Zhukov...
Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Harvard Law School wants to see several Institutes of Law established in the United States--to push full-time research on such neglected problems as disarmament and maintenance of peace, the laws of different nations and cultures, automobile accidents, crime and delinquency, and public and legal ethics...
Still later, a Labor Department mediator called to ask for a little top-level pressure to push a labor-management settlement. "Yes, I think I can help," replied Goldberg. And without bothering to check with the White House, Arthur Goldberg began dictating a telegram: "The President has asked me to urge...
...forget about all this?" Without pausing, he continued: "I'll tell you why. In two days I'd have itchy feet again. I can't keep out of it. I love this state and I loved being Governor, and I'm going to make another push for it." Said Virginia Knight, with an understanding smile: "What's that song? It's better the second time around...
...much too absorbed with writing to need the Village, and he began a series of withdrawals. The first took him to a cottage 24 miles away, in Tarrytown. Friends apparently found his address, because he hid out in a sweatbox near the Third Avenue el for his three-week push to finish Catcher. He decided to move again, and in one of the notable failures of Zen archery, hit on Westport. The artsy-ginsy exurb was no place for Salinger. "A writer's worst enemy is another writer," he remarked ungraciously and accurately somewhat later...