Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Janko Smole, president of the executive council of the Yugoslav state of Slovenia, found himself confronted with noisy objections fortnight ago in the regional legislature. He was trying to push through a bill streamlining the Slovenian health-insurance bureaucracy-for which over half of the deputies worked and thus were reluctant to see reorganized. Speaker after speaker rose to denounce Smole's proposed law. Tolerantly, the president let the deputies rant and rave, confident that when all was said, the party's will would be done as usual. But when he called for a vote, the measure...
...true that cadets still must perform push-ups-but no longer over a bayonet; the yearly dose of close-order drill has been slashed by 70 per cent. Gone are the interminable handson-heels "duck walks" that once sent Douglas MacArthur to a hospital. Forbidden, too, are such hazing tortures as "shower formation," in which plebes braced at attention until perspiration soaked their bathrobes. Instead of requiring the traditional gibberish reply to the upperclassman's question, "How is the cow?"* a plebe may be ordered at dinner to deliver a ten-minute lecture on Viet...
Neither of the other schools, however, has shown much interest in such a venture and Harvard is not prepared to push them...
Even in the delightful business of buying presents for children, the object often reflects the donor's own desires-the football from the frustrated athlete, the telescope as a gentle push toward studiousness-rather than an understanding of the child's inner world. Not that entering this world is easy; and, oddly, it gets harder as children grow older. The blight of depersonalization sets in with the increasing inclination of teen-agers to ask for and receive plain money. Explains one Boston 17-year-old, who insists on cold cash: "If they buy it, it's always...
...Liberal government seems in a mood to push on with the bill, to the astonishment of many Canadians. Montreal Gazette Business Columnist John Meyer called the bill "quite inexcusable" and warned that "the implications of this for other foreign investors are absolutely frightening." At the hearings, Bank of Montreal Chairman G. Arnold Hart protested that "such an arbitrary and discriminatory" act could only "lay us open to retaliation." Possibly so. If the bill passes, the next U.S. Congress will probably act on a measure, sponsored by New York's Republican Sena tor Jacob Javits, that provides...