Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from each interview. He is by turns gentle, coaxing, disbelieving, and confrontational with those he interviews. It is as though he can. feel exactly to what degree each subject is willing to recount experiences, and just what his limits are. And he knows precisely how far he can push each interview, each subject, to get what he wants. While he will take 20 minutes to coax a group of villagers to describe what life was like with the Jews, he does not hesitiate to challenge the widow of a Nazi who has clearly got her facts wrong...
...wake of a recent ruling upholding Cambridge's authority to ban nerve gas testing as a health hazard, elected representatives have begun a push for statewide procedures of licensing and inspecting...
...could one of you guys push that back down for me? Thanks...
After about 18 miles the blocks seemed to get longer and I could feel pace getting slower. I walked some and took water more often. The crowd was yelling for me to push...
...complicated narrative interweaves events in Bombay with a subsequent movie about those events. But rather than push toward deeper understanding, Hare lampoons his argument in dopey scenes from the putative movie and shifts toward melodrama in more elegant but equally sentimental scenes for the "actual" characters. In the most implausible sequence, an American actress offers herself as the prize to the "winner" of the debate between the novelist and the journalist. Even after this conscious retreat from political complexity, Map remains lively and provocative. Yet it leaves a viewer with the sad sense that its author shrank from the dangers...