Word: pushed
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...years that followed, the Soviets continued to push, and the U.S. looked for ways to exert counterpressure. The Eisenhower Doctrine of 1957 was a vow to use American military force against Communist aggression in the Middle East. After Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba, U.S. policymakers dusted off the 136-year-old Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere. (The original version, appropriately, had been occasioned in part by concern over czarist claims on territory along the Pacific coast...
Fitzwater wasn't jesting. Since Ronald Reagan's return from his Santa Barbara ranch, the White House has been transformed into a branch office of Bush campaign headquarters; White House officials have donned red-white-and- blue neckties printed with PUSH FOR BUSH. After the neckties were distributed at a Cabinet meeting, the President called upon his top officers to become surrogate speakers for Bush. Nearly every presidential trip and ceremony has been turned into a showcase for the heir apparent...
...push started with a sun-drenched Rose Garden ceremony last week, during which Reagan signed the fair housing bill and extolled Bush's "enormous courage" in voting for the original legislation 20 years ago. Later the President used the White House proclamation of Hispanic Heritage Week to spotlight Bush's child-care plan. Joining the battle between Bush and Michael Dukakis for the Hispanic vote, Reagan met with Hispanic newsmen and assured them of Bush's "warm feelings with regard to Hispanics." Reagan barnstormed through southeastern Missouri last week, labeling Democrats "trench-coat liberals" and darkly warning that a Dukakis...
...weeks, pundits have advised Dukakis to push forth a few bold, new proposals in order to "define himself." No other issue better defines the stark choice we have before us in November--the choice between compassion and callousness...
Kennedy was the first Catholic; Dukakis is the first ethnic candidate, the first child of immigrants of the late 19th century to attempt to push the parameters of the American dream. Those immigrants experienced prejudice, learning that a last name which sounded foreign brought them abuse more often than a welcoming gesture. But they also, by and large, found that America was open to them, and for the most part they became guardians of the rights of others to become Americans. In short, they were optimists...