Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past record, Erhard might well be able to smooth things over and prevent a serious government crisis. But the Social Democrats have invited the generals to testify this week before the Bundestag's defense committee. After that, they will push for a full debate when the Bundestag reconvenes...
More to Come. Even so, official figures do not yet reflect some of the biggest recent price hikes, notably the early August 2.3% boost in sheet-steel prices, which promises to push up the price tags on everything from nails to new autos this fall. And there is much more to come. Cement makers have boosted prices by 10? to 20? per bbl. in several areas, effective in November or January. On Sept. 1, Detroit's unionized barbers will increase men's hair cuts from $2.25 to $2.50. Incensed by that "annual holdup," the Detroit News only half...
Last week Journal leaders reported that Mormon Apostle Ezra Taft Benson has been trying to push his church into an ultraconservative political stance; that the Federal Government has be come disenchanted with de facto segregated neighborhood schools, is now subtly pushing such ideas as "education plazas" that would serve the school needs of an entire community; and that a growing number of juvenile courts are using teen-age "juries" to recommend sentences for young errants...
Changing the Histories. As the multiracial reader begins to catch on, Negro groups are making an even greater push to eliminate distortions and omissions in history textbooks. Until recently, some popular texts depicted the plantation life of Negro slaves as a carefree round of play, song and dance but did not mention slave uprisings or the Underground Railroad to freedom. Researchers at Tufts University last month completed a study of 24 elementary school social studies books, found that many are "tinged with racism." A B'nai B'rith study of 24 high school social studies texts disclosed that...
Unlike Doman, the Engelmanns say that a child has an "initial resistance" to learning, that "you must push him" and "make lessons a rigid part of his daily schedule." They urge parents to teach a baby names of parts of the body before he is 18 months old, start on the alphabet in five-minute lessons at 30 months, gradually work up to daily 90-minute lessons. The book details a sequence of teaching steps with specific instructions on how to get across such progressively more complex concepts as geometric shapes (by age three), counting backward (age four), fractions...