Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...I.A.C.P. was founded in 1893, but after the '20s and '30s, when it helped push police reform, it faded into little more than a great-to-see-you group. Then, six years ago, Quinn Tamm arrived. A careful FBI agent who had made his way up to the rank of assistant director, Tamm found six staffers working out of makeshift Washington offices when he took on the I.A.C.P. job. Now there are 70 on the staff, and the association has its own building. The white-haired, leathery-faced Tamm, 57, has placed particular emphasis on upgrading the training...
...illegal radio stations that for the past three years have been beaming pop music into the British Isles from makeshift studios on rusty ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit. True to his word, Short last month helped push a piece of legislation through Parliament which, by making it a criminal offense to supply advertising, food or ships to the outlaw stations, successfully torpedoed the pirate fleet. A bloody catastrophe, wailed many of the 20 million listeners who each week tuned in to hear the latest in the big beat scene...
...sharp spasm in the world balance of power, caused by Russia's overexpansion into Europe at the end of World War II. Just as Napoleon's France and the Germanys of Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler had upset the power balances of the past, Stalin's push into the vacuum after 1945 precipitated years of struggle to restore the balance. As Halle sees it, the Allies largely had themselves to blame. "It would have been better in the two World Wars," he writes, "if the restoration of a balance of power had been the victors' conscious...
...down, roll over, crawl in circles, up, down, faster, talk, talk, talk." The captives were lined up in front of a row of odoriferous barrels partly filled with slime and crawling with spiders. "Get in headfirst, you dumb sickies," they were told. "Kiss the mud. Now do push...
...recently set a new speed record of 4,260 m.p.h., or 6.33 times the speed of sound. Last week the once all-black plane sported a white paint job covering new ablative material purposely designed to char in flight as the aircraft engages in tests that should push its maximum speed to a blistering Mach 8 by 1969. Snugged under its wings, the X-15 now carries twin, droppable tanks loaded with additional fuel needed to achieve such speed...