Word: pushed
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...learned from the tradition without even noticing it." And that's the point. As diverse as they are, as different as they are from their flowers-and-Mount Fuji predecessors, the neo-nihonga painters aren't divorced from Japanese tradition-they're part of it, even as they push it forward. The Meiji-era critics who built nihonga as a kind of artistic Great Wall against Western invasion needn't have worried...
...practiced impatience. This is the second time the madrasah students have been tear-gassed; they know what to do. The afternoon call to prayer echoes through the halls, barely audible above the wails of women hurt by burns, tear-gas inhalation and, in one case, bullets. Dozens of hands push cups of water on me, conscientious, even in the middle of mayhem, about the foreigner in their midst...
...interpreter's New York City hotel room Tuesday afternoon trying food on for size, Kobayashi could open his mouth wide enough to accommodate a hot dog by itself, but an attempt to push through a bun resembled a Mack truck trying to enter a home garage. Two visits to an acupuncturist in the city, painkillers and anti-inflammatory pills lessened the pain - but not the shame - of his current condition. "I'm very embarrassed as an athlete and as a competitive eater that I didn't take care of my body and that I'm at this point now," Kobayashi...
...Catholic Church has never been a model of candor or transparency. Compare it to the Chinese government, however, and the Vatican can start to look downright forthcoming. In what may be Rome's strongest public push to normalize relations with China, Pope Benedict XVI has sent a 55-page open letter to Chinese Catholics that essentially lays all the Vatican's diplomatic cards on the table. The initial response from Beijing, meanwhile, has been terse and predictably cryptic...
While admitting that maybe a little cash could push “borderline” kids over the edge into greater scholastic success, Noguera worries that this plan would leave the students who really need help even farther behind...