Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic quality. Late on the afternoon of June 9, 1953, Bob Taft, fatally ill, entered Styles Bridges' office, dropped heavily into a chair and said quietly: "I'm going to be away and I've asked Bill to carry on for me. Nobody can push him around...
...which the Administration needs, and is seeking, advice. The Council's reports should be its own, and not the Administration's, and the Council's standard of success is the number of intelligent ideas which it produces. And when the Council does come up with an idea, it should push it, as it did, by and large, in both the parking and parietal questions. The trouble with this year's Council was not so much in what it did do: it had some notable successes and it probably bumbled no more than previous Councils. The trouble lay more in what...
...Push for Pushcart. Whitney's grandfathers were Teddy Roosevelt's Secretary of State John Hay, and William Collins Whitney, a street-railway tycoon and multimillionaire. Thanks principally to Grandfather Whitney, Jock Whitney is endowed with a fortune of some $60 million (which will tide him through the London embassy's estimated excess expenditure of $50,000 a year above the ambassador's $27,500-a-year salary and allowances), but he has always managed to combine the graces of a patrician upbringing with shrewd common sense. Once he ordered his name expunged from the New York...
...NATURAL-GAS BILL is being drafted by Texas oilmen, who are readying united-front to fight federal control of field gas prices. Oilmen will push bill in next Congress, hope to lessen opposition of consumer groups by including in draft a clause designed to protect gas users against overpricing...
...forward way. "That's how I operate." he murmurs, breathing hard, "two times normal and twice as fast." They all drive away in Tom's car, and for most of the next hour Actor Quinn has nothing to do but knock the hero down and push the heroine over...