Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arthur D. Little, Inc., largest private research and management consultant firm in the U.S., will get the touchy and prestigious post in Paris. Onetime boss of the Army's Research and Development section, ex-Paratrooper Gavin petulantly resigned from the Army in 1958 after losing a battle to push his service farther into the space and missile business. Hustling into print with his book, War and Peace in the Space Age, Gavin impressed the then Senator Kennedy (who reviewed the book for the Reporter magazine) with his argument that future wars would be limited and tactical, necessitating a flexible...
Each of the N.B.A.'s stars faces special defensive techniques. Says Cincinnati's Wayne Embry of playing against Boston's Russell: "Get Bill off the boards. I try to push him out as far as he'll go. I try to bump him out with my thighs and forearms. You can't push Wilt out. He's too strong." Says Russell on defending against Chamberlain: "Make him take that fall-away shot of his-it takes him away from the backboard." Says Twyman about Baylor, one of the great stars in the history...
...crew. When a good part of the M-G-M company recently left Tahiti for a temporary breather in Los Angeles, La Tribune Tahitienne exulted: "The Polynesian gods are favoring us." Not exactly. Back in Hollywood, the Polynesian gods were planning second and third waves of invasion that should push the cost of the film past the $15 million spent on Ben Hur, and eventually turn Tahiti into an offshore subdivision of Malibu...
...bellowingly individualistic, care fully tailored misfit way. Their talk can be caustic, their clashes sharp, their belligerent defenselessness vivid. The play's best qualities are its avoiding a sermon ized tone for a bull-session one, among bull-session immaturities, and its trying to push beyond specific race problems to a basic human-race one. Its serious and growing weakness is that to what is largely familiar material it brings little rewarding development, so that together with repeating others, it more and more repeats itself. Once the paint wears thin, there is the merest plywood behind...
...rise; IBM has jumped from 592 to 639 in a month, and American Telephone & Telegraph has gone from 104 to 113⅞. But as a group, the blue chips still draw a wary glance from many investors. "They do not provide protection against the kind of cost-push inflation we have been having," says Bradbury K. Thurlow, vice president of Winslow, Cohu & Stetson, "and they are selling at inflated price-earnings ratios, which imply a future growth potential in earnings that cannot be logically shown to exist...