Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Thieu carefully described his resignation as voluntary, it was virtually his only choice, even without the push from Washington. In the days leading up to his announcement, Communist troops had made a mockery of any claim that Saigon could yet mobilize a vigorous defense. The badly battered ARVN 18th Division put up a heroic stand at the provincial capital of Xuan Loc, 40 miles northeast of Saigon, but a formidable force of three North Vietnamese divisions, after taking some severe casualties from government air strikes, simply wore them down. When the exhausted remnants of Xuan Loc's defenders straggled...
...endorse and push for all the recommendations you're not endorsing equal access. We want to see Harvard recognize its responsibility as a truly coeducational institution and all that entails," she said...
Schylling said he expects "a big push" before the deadline because of an improving stock market and donations from Harvard's reunion classes...
...their one-on-one battle to stay ahead of Massachusetts, New Hampshirites are having none of such arguments. New Hampshire Speaker of the House George Roberts plans to reconvene his lawmakers as late as December to push up primary day (now set for March 2) if need be. But the Massachusetts legislators meet the year round. They are sure they can keep in step with any precipitate moves New Hampshire makes, even, says State Senate President Kevin Harrington, "if we have to hold the primary between halves of the Rose Bowl...
...morning of Aug. 6, 1945, Dr. Fumio Shigeto was waiting in line for a trolley to take him to Hiroshima's Red Cross Hospital. A nurse he knew waved to him, inviting him to join her near the front of the queue. Not wanting to push ahead of the people in front of him, Shigeto declined the offer. At that moment there was a blinding flash, followed by a deafening boom. Most of the people in the line were hurled to the ground, burned and bleeding. Shigeto, who was sheltered by the corner of a reinforced-concrete building, survived...