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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erwin had decided, however, that he had better push down the trees before the injunction went into effect. He was ready at 9 a.m. to attack the trees. Unfortunately for Erwin, a lot of the university shared my feelings about the trees. So there were already hundreds of students out by the creek. A big group had had the guts to climb up in the trees before the cops arrived. A tree flag was flying from the tallest cypress...

Author: By Larry Grisham, | Title: Administrators vs. Trees at the University of Texas | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...anything. But he had money sense. He knew what to use his money for-how to have fun with it. Joe bought all those houses. He made all those movies. He understood about buying himself positions in government-London, for example. And he knew how to use money to push his children along as fast as they could be pushed. Yes, he knew what money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where the Kennedy Money Is | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...theory, the U.S. would like to see a restoration of democratic government in Greece, but it is afraid to push the Greek rulers too hard for fear that they might decide to seek arms or aid elsewhere. When Ambassador Tasca takes up his duties in Athens, he will try diplomatically to nudge Papadopoulos and his military colleagues toward more democratic rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Comfort for the Colonels | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

Junior guard Dale Dover scored on four driving lay-ups midway through the second half to help push the varsity basketball team to an 18-point lead and an eventual 102-93 victory over the freshman team last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Defeats Freshmen, 102-93 | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

While the Harvard cheerleaders loll about on the sidelines doing push-ups when the Crimson scores, and the Harvard fans leisurely sip on their Scotch-and-waters, the Band vehemently eggs the Harvard charges onward with traditional cheers like "Shove that Ball" and "E to the x! dy! dx!/E to the y! dy!/cosine, secant, tangent, sine/three point one four one five nine/come on Harvard, give 'em the digit!" The latter cheer is called "Engineers...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: The Harvard Band: After Today, What? | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

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