Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jackson Lake resort and whose brother Laurance oversees its operation-the men who were discussed most were not even at the meeting. Nixon was vacationing back East -and observing his self-imposed moratorium on active campaigning. Reagan and Romney were in their respective capitals waging last-minute battles to push big new tax increases through recalcitrant legislatures...
...favorite game: making his clients feel they were doing well just to be seen with him. The third was Carl Byoir, who died ten years ago at 68, an operative not above such methods as setting up phony front organizations, which sounded like disinterested citizens' groups, to push a client's cause. The firm he founded thrives today, including among its many clients a Philadelphia-based order of nuns, the Sisters of Mercy...
...bigger advertising agencies have their own p.r. departments, notably J. Walter Thompson. Among its recent campaigns: to publicize a marine motor firm, it arranged underwater tests to see whether outboard motors frighten fish (they don't, at least in J. Walter Thompson's view); to push a mouthwash, the agency sent a Negro model into ghetto high schools to lecture on grooming and personal hygiene...
...future seems to hold more of the same. When the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library is constructed, the number of sightseers in Harvard Square will jump quickly. If the City does push through an urban redevelopment program for parts of the Square, even more people may come on a regular basis...
...John Kennedy's unhappy Viennese deadlock with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. Also, Washington officialdom has a built-in predisposition against high-level meetings without detailed preparation and a concrete agenda. Finally, the Administration was opposed to a meeting that would strengthen Kosygin's hand in his Middle Eastern propaganda push, which was the main reason for his visit...