Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend that in his dying hour he would hope to fix his mind on some image of personal glory, might have judged himself a failure in the last twelve months of his life. For in Joe McCarthy's mind, "to do something" meant only one thing: to push himself to power amid the cheers of the crowd. And having pushed himself too far, too fast, too ruthlessly, he fell near to oblivion and a restless frustration that his close friends say contributed to his last illness...
...thus slightly distasteful to the mass of the moviegoing public. Whether one approves of the Kazan-Williams viewpoint or not, Baby Doll is as intensely serious and thoughtful a film as the American cinema has ever produced. A continuing condemnation of frank and disturbing films may be a further push along the road to a thoughtless mediocrity in the mass media...
...Detroit the latest evidence of creeping inflation promptly provoked a new hassle between management and labor over the question: Do wages push up prices or do prices push up wages? Ford Motor Co.'s Vice President John S. Bugas, eying Walter Reuther's promise to win his United Auto Workers a shorter work week and "a hell of a lot" more money in 1958, put much of the blame for the current inflation on labor's demands for ever higher wages and fringe benefits. Argued Bugas: since 1954 wage packages have exceeded 5% annually in key industries...
...aspect of the amendment is that it will give American society what it has never possessed, or at least has never had a sufficient number of--a peasantry. For if the rich don't pay graduated taxes, the masses will have to pay more, and that should not only push down the rising middle classes, but will certainly so lower the lower class that it will actually become quaint...
...swam six days a week, covered an estimated 80 miles apiece each month. Many of them took a ten weeks' calisthenics course in a Sydney gym, tossed medicine balls, chinned the horizontal bar, did pushups. Buoyant (5 ft. 6 in., 152 Ibs.) "Lainy" Crapp worked up to 80 push-ups and, boasted her proud coach, Frank Guthrie, became "almost as strong as a,man." Before the Olympics began, Guthrie figured Lamy was certainly strong enough to swim like a man. He taught her to reduce her kicking power and to slash the water with her arms in a harsh...