Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breezy Irreverence. Around Newsday these days, everyone takes his job with a new seriousness. Gone is the breezy irreverence that the staff used to associate with "Miss P," who delighted in twitting Long Island's moneyed aristocracy and even her own advertisers. Advertisers are no more likely to push the Captain around, but neither is he likely to let his editors goad an advertiser into canceling a contract. Though he directs operations with imaginative skill, he is not especially at home in the newsroom, and keeps his distance from his shirtsleeve staff...
...crevice beneath me. As I pulled back to get it loose, my helmet cracked hard against the rock ceiling. Now both my arms were stretched straight in front of me, my legs straight back. The only way to get moving again in that tight space was to push myself with my boot toes, lifting myself off the ground with my elbows, gaining an inch or two each time. It was 50 feet that way. And most of the cave was still to come...
...Corporation had considered moving up the occupancy date to either September 1968 or January 1969. "The Corporation settled on the later date because the architects said that any attempt to push up the occupancy date would mean that there would be less time to spend on the design and to look for the most economical way of building," L. Gard Wiggins, Administrative vice-president, said yesterday...
...Might not the high suicide rate among students [Oct. 14] suggest that there are too many young people in college who would be better off in the working world finding out what life is about? The tendency to push people through graduate school is too often motivated by monetary rather than humanitarian reasons. We end up with Ph.D.s who are expected to be leaders of men when their only experience is that of children going through school...
...that Mao and Lin have somewhat consolidated their victory in the Politburo, many have tried to speculate when the frantic activity in China will end. Some observers see in the Cultural Revolution the germs of another abortive push toward impossible economic quotas such as the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950's. But Party directives have cautioned the Red Guards to strive for "cultural" improvements and leave the economy alone...