Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. Euripides examines the limits to which a man's blind ambition can push him in the appalling story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his own daughter for the sake of winning a military victory. As a wronged wife and wounded mother, Irene Papas is a vessel of chained intensity...
...walls. "Lincoln was a sad man," F.D.R. once said, "because he couldn't get it all at once. And nobody can." At the end of one of his poorer days, Truman growled over a bourbon and water: "They talk about the power of the President, how I can just push a button to get things done. Why, I spend most of my time kissing somebody's ass." And Johnson roared recently: "Power? The only power I've got is nuclear and I can't use that...
...sequence is not over. Although Kohl's book will not be released until Jan. 15, two of his fellow critics have already stepped way ahead of the pack to push it in print-Friedenberg praised it in the Saturday Review, while Coles wrote a blurb that appears on the dust jacket...
...that one. Dr. McNeill also changed his mind. Forgetting his warning, he stated that Sledge was now of sound mind and sane. No contradictory testimony was offered by any state witnesses, and the jury had little choice but to free the killer. Sane enough at least not to push his luck, Sledge immediately left the state...
...aides, basing their case on a debatable vision of future trouble, argued that only by raising taxes could the soaring federal deficit be shaved enough to avoid inflation. Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, insisted that the kind of trouble he saw-cost-push inflation from rising wages and prices-might only be aggravated by higher taxes. Besides, he argued, the economy was not nearly so strong as the Administration maintained...