Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact of the matter is, that when push came to shove in that courtroom under oath, it turned out that every fact in that broadcast was accurate...
Crile doesn't publish by himself. Crile has me to deal with. He has his associate producer to deal with. He has his superior editors to deal with. He's got to prove every fact that's in that broadcast. The fact of the matter is, that when push came to prove in that courtroom under oath, it turned out that every fact in that broadcast was accurate...
...Army's 101st Airborne Division, who will be flown in by helicopter the following day. By the end of next week, about 10,000 American troops will have gone into action throughout Honduras, a nation the size of Tennessee. In one operation, U.S. and Honduran soldiers will push off side by side from base camps, practicing ways to search the jungles of northern Honduras for leftist guerrillas who might rise in response to a call from Managua to support an invasion...
...land of peasants? Were the North Vietnamese under Ho Chi Minh austere and virtuous folk heroes, or murderous, Stalinist totalitarians who committed barbarities far worse than those of the Americans and South Vietnamese? Was Southeast Asia a line of dominoes waiting to fall, one after another, before the sinister push of Communism? Or was the region a complexity of nationalities, all different, with mutual historic antagonisms that predated the war and will endure when its 100th anniversary rolls around? Were the Americans a collection of baby killers, or basically honorable men doing their duty when the nation called? Were...
...goes awry: Belushi, a creative entertainer, sought stimulation in drugs, turning from a T-plus into a T-minus. Says Farley: "I can't predict whether the Type T will become a Dillinger or a Crick, but if you can interest them early and work with them, you can push them toward the creative." His research, he says, has practical ap plication right now. Children identified as Type Ts should not be tamped down in school but given different outlets, and Type T research can tell parents which of their children are likely to run away from home and which...