Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politicians throughout the country have already started making plans for the big push ahead, organizing booster clubs and trying to attract more people to take active part in the political parties. Their efforts will almost certainly meet with some success, because traditionally the American people, often apathetic in off-year elections, suddenly become very concerned with politics when it becomes a question of electing a chief executive...
...political clubs, with such projects as the two mock conventions and pre-campaign preparation for next fall, will be the vehicle for renewed political interest to manifest itself again. The remainder of this term will see continuing ground work activity in anticipation of the big push next fall, when again the political arena will dominate the country and the University
Khrushchev's propaganda push for the Virgin Land has made it a favorite front-page subject in Pravda, a heroic subject for Soviet moviemakers, and the inspiration for at least two Moscow plays. But since Russian playwrights have also been instructed to get more credible realism into their turgid propaganda drama, the exhortations have been marked by some surprising candor...
Brazil's new President has made his countrymen a vast promise-not merely to cope with the old, urgent problems of sprinting inflation and nagging debts, but to push and pull the nation a long way toward the bright dream of tomorrow-in his own phrase, to achieve "Fifty Years' Progress in Five." Kubitschek is a man with a political flair and a remarkable capacity for work; he will need both...
...early riser, the President held his first Cabinet meeting at 7 a.m. on the day after the inauguration, reminded his ministers that he firmly intends to push ahead with his economic program and maintain "a high standard of administrative morality." That night he spoke at a sumptuous banquet (caviar, lobster, pheasant) for the 59 foreign delegations assembled...