Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floor, gyrating to three alternating bands whose blast and big beat were amplified through a loudspeaker system suddenly gone berserk. For those driven out by the din, the club has other diversions: a reading room and TV room (one color set), a movie theater (avantgarde shorts). Street-vendor carts push Nathan's Famous hot dogs (50?), and the bar serves liberal portions of Pepsi-Cola, but nothing stronger than beer and wine is served...
Because of this "tough problem," Monro thinks the NCAA will have to keep the 1.6 legislation. He emphasized that the NCAA is "not trying to push us out." But he does not see how the Ivy League can comply...
...Pull & Push. Oxygenated blood from DeRudder's lungs then flowed normally into his left auricle. From there, up to 80% of it was drawn by suction into the pump chamber, held for an instant by a check valve, then pushed by the pressure of the pump's downstroke into the aorta, which supplies all the body's arteries. The rest took nature's course. It passed through the newly implanted artificial mitral valve into the ventricle, which continued to beat, and out into the aorta...
...races against the Crimson Saturday, M.I.T. apparently decided to make its big push at the half-mile-to-go mark. In the junior varsity race, M.I.T. had a half-length lead at this point and protected it for the rest of the distance...
Varied motives push students into graduate study. "I really don't feel prepared to do anything with this liberal arts education," says one Yale senior who has applied at law schools. "You've just got to go to graduate school." Another contends that "the pressure is parental-and it almost killed me." He finally said "To hell with it" and joined the Peace Corps...