Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. took the stand, and without even noting that Prosperity was beautiful, grimly defended the Administration's "tight money" policy as an indispensable weapon against inflation. With the economy booming, he explained again, demand for credit tends to outrun supply, so interest rates push upward. For the Government to try to hold the rates down would be to follow "the road to inflation." The oft-raised claim that tight money presses unfairly on small business and local government is "debatable," Martin argued. Furthermore, frustrated borrowers "would suffer infinitely more from further inflationary bites" than...
...They Did It. On the day of the strike, some two dozen Negro ministers decided to push for continuance of the bus boycott. The original demands were mild: 1) Negroes would still be seated from the rear and whites from the front, but on a first-come-first-served basis; 2) Negroes would get courteous treatment; 3) Negro drivers would be employed for routes through predominantly Negro areas. To direct their protest, the Negro ministers decided to form the Montgomery Improvement Association. And for president they elected the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a relative newcomer whose ability was evident...
...Olympians Bob Gutowski and the Rev. Bob Richards matched each other leap for leap in the pole vault, saw the bar push steadily past 15 ft. At 15 ft. 6 in., Richards sailed over easily. Gutowski felt himself brush the bar, watched it bounce off the standards and looked up from the sawdust pit to see it settle in place. Both failed at 15 ft. 9 in. For Richards the first-place tie was his eleventh consecutive Millrose victory...
...most of the 5,000 Egyptians captured in the Sinai campaign, the image of Israel was the one Nasser's radio had given them-a contemptible land of near starvation kept alive by U.S. subsidies, needing only one quick and timely push by the Arabs to shove it into final oblivion. But a few Egyptians were more curious. Israel's Foreign Ministry, learning that some Egyptian officers wanted to see Israel for themselves, jumped at the chance...
...R.A.F. base outside Nicosia. Their orders were to bomb the Inshass airfield outside Cairo. Suddenly one bomber slumped nose-down on the runway. Four minutes later, 24-year-old Pilot Dennis Raymond Kenyon faced Squadron Leader Norman Hartley. "What's the matter, Dennis?" Hartley demanded. "Did you push the wrong button?" Dennis Kenyon threw his helmet on the ground and burst into incoherent tears. Later he told Hartley that he had deliberately retracted his wheels because "I did not altogether approve of what we were doing in Egypt," and blurted that he had contemplated suicide after he climbed...