Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deliver the body to its final resting place, this time encased in a metal coffin. Again arms flailed and chants of "Death to America!" filled the air as the helicopter touched down. Although barricades held most of the crowd at bay, the Guards were forced to make a frantic push past the outstretched hands to deliver the coffin to the grave site. At the last instant, the metal lid of the casket was ripped off, and the body was rolled into the grave, in keeping with an Islamic tradition that requires that the dead be interred in only a shroud...
...roots movement, as in Poland. For another, Gorbachev does not have a large, well-organized opposition to contend with and has ruled out for now the idea of multiparty elections. Yet the debacle of the Polish party must be giving him second thoughts about how much further he can push political democratization without threatening Communist authority...
Many suspect that Yang is the true champion of the military push into Tiananmen. While Deng heads the shadowy but omnipotent Central Military Commission, the President has placed relatives in key positions in the military hierarchy; one of the units involved in the Tiananmen massacre was under the personal command of his brother Yang Baibing. If Deng, through loss of face or life, ceased to rule China, Yang Shangkun might attempt to maneuver himself into the leadership of the Central Military Commission and replace Deng as China's most eminent leader...
That the Young Report is in jeopardy is an indication of the changing role of the Overseers, which traditionally has acted as a rubber stamp for the Corporation, which is responsible for all University policy decisions. HRAAA members and other, more progressive University nominees push for the Board to take a more active role in Harvard's governance, and, as a result, the University strives to marginalize them in the Board itself...
...fact, Verba, a top contender for dean of the Faculty when Spence was appointed five years ago keeps adding administrative posts to his resume. And many of his colleagues say Verba's successes result because he has the connections and the consensus-building skills necessary to push measures through the tangle of Harvard's decentralized bureaucracy...