Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dead Sea Scrolls and a shelf full of theological tomes before tackling The Ten Commandments. He has uncomplainingly walked sandalless on his flat feet up Mount Sinai, and for his role of Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy jammed a plastic noodle into his nose to push it properly out of joint. He took a lengthy driver's course in the chariot for Ben-Hur, polished an English accent with a speech teacher and nightly tapings for seven weeks before Khartoum. "Just once," he admits, "I'd like a role in which...
They plan to supply an organizaitonal package" to the sponsors of new ARFEP chapters. The package will contain information on structuring the chapter, getting speakers, and choosing discussion topics. "We are trying to give them the basic push," Crampton said, "because people really have very little idea how to organize...
...powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,500,000 members), who only three weeks ago resigned from the Cabinet in protest against any official restraint on wages, vowed that he would support workers who were due for raises under previously agreed contracts. Other unions pledged to push for higher wages-freeze or no freeze...
Many experts feel that Wilson may be forced to push a bill through Commons making the freeze mandatory, even at the risk of temporarily splitting his party. For if he fails in his present attempt to deflate Britain's inflation-ridden economy, he may soon be confronted with a far tougher alternative: devaluation of the pound. That he wants to avoid. Wilson is aware that the Labor government's devaluation of sterling in 1949 was a major reason for its expulsion from office by British voters two years later...
...months, and Cliff has abstained since January-but neither seems to miss the social swirl. "People tell us that tennis isn't everything," explains Cliff, "but to us it is. These people who try to influence us aren't happy themselves, and they're trying to push us away from the deep happiness we've found in the game...