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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Instructor Jackie Rubenstein, as she launches into a nursery-like rhyme: "Open, shut them, give a little clap, clap, clap, and put them in your lap, lap, lap . . ." On cue, 19 mothers seated in a circle on the floor grasp the wrists of the toddlers before them and dutifully push and pull tiny arms and hands. Rubenstein changes her tune, tykes are settled on their backs, and mothers pedal little limbs bicycle- style. Then to a third ditty, with youngsters in their laps, mothers inch their hips forward to the center of the ring where they lift the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: C'Mon Now, Shape It Up, Baby | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...Last spring the place was crowded, but it wasn't always students," she says. "Nowadays the place is packed. The students started coming back a week ago, and now people are having to push...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Miles to Go Before I Can Drink | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

...When push came to shove," and CQ refused tofill the text orders this fall, the Coop finallyagreed to pay the bill and CQ sent them the order,Rozakis said. Although the course assistant saidCoop employees told him the shipment had arrived,the books had not reached the shelves as ofclosing time yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Blunder Postpones Arrival of Gov. Textbooks | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...even consider Spectacle Island," countered South Boston resident Andy Donovan. "I think Quincy should make an effort to clean the harbor up. I smell something real sour in [Quincy politicians'] efforts to push this site...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Harbor Isle Sought For Sludge | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...scandal has shaken public confidence in its banks, some of Yugoslavia's 23 million citizens have found reason to cheer. They say that the country's cumbersome rotating leadership, which has ruled since the death of Dictator Josip Broz Tito in 1980, may now have the opportunity to push through needed reforms. On the reformers' list are such measures as liquidation of money-losing state companies, closer supervision of regional banks by central authorities, and curbs on the ability of regional governments to veto national legislation. Moreover, the Yugoslav press played an unusually aggressive role in uncovering the fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia All the Party Chief's Men | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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