Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the House of Representatives unexpectedly voted against restoring any kind of aid to antigovernment rebels in Nicaragua, an angry Ronald Reagan vowed to push for legislation providing for assistance "again and again." The President overestimated the challenge...
...mine Nicaraguan harbors. When the Administration began sounding out legislators on the chances for a resumption early this year, it quickly became obvious that there was little sentiment in favor of military aid. The Administration sought to get around this opposition by drafting the "nonlethal" formulation, and seeking to push it through Congress in the midst of a budget debate. Result: a defeat in the House by the squeaker difference of 215 to 213, with 14 Republicans voting against...
Curiously, the real thing, nuclear war, was mentioned hardly at all. Federal Signal Corp. did push its big civil-defense sirens ("The wavering sound," explained Salesman Jerry Koster, "is when there's an actual attack"), but / only Walter Murphey came to Indianapolis eager to talk about war. Murphey, 73, is executive director of the American Civil Defense Association, an 800-member group that agitates, without much success, for federally funded bomb shelters. "That's our hang-up," he said. "Our reason for being is nuclear attack." Despite a voice just like Jimmy Stewart's and an utterly genial manner, Murphey...
...country performing an environmentalist "Concert for the Earth" with American Jazzman Paul Winter. Last week both men of Soviet letters were in New York City for a special reading and concert at Carnegie Hall that expressed their shared hopes for peace. Says Yevtushenko: "The trouble with people who can push the button is that they can't see people's faces. As for me, I am going home with a whole sackful of American faces...
...adolescent tension and adult anonymity. Fischl paints this world of failed intimacies with conviction and narrative grip: at best, his drawing is beautifully concise (though marred, at present, by too many botched and hasty passages), and his use of cinematic framing and lighting conventions gives his scenes a subtle push-pull of vividness and artificiality. This artist is clearly set for the long haul, into the 21st century...