Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disliked "death sentence" when applied to his holding-company bill. He felt that "court-packing plan" was unjust to his attempted reform of the Federal judiciary. "Purge" he hated; it smacked of Stalin and Hitler. By last week a new word annoyed him: "appeasement," as applied to his big push to restore Business confidence. "Appeasement" sounded as though he had done something to Business for which he now sought to apologize...
Meantime, the Roosevelt Recovery push proceeded on a dozen fronts-but not without incongruities. The most notable pushes...
...outside world had been curious about Stalin's view of the German push to the East. Would he threaten Hitler? Would he talk about Russia's armed strength? To everyone's surprise his remarks were addressed not against Germany but against the democracies, whom he charged with "urging the Germans on to march farther East, promising them easy pickings and prompting them: 'You start a war against the Bolsheviks and then everything will proceed nicely.' " Their ulterior motive, he said, was to get Germany and Russia into war, let them knock each other groggy...
...Sullivan holding its own for about five minutes. It was almost six minutes before Tony Mischo could tally the first basket of the evening, and this seemed to serve only as a single to start the Red and Blue attack rolling. They began to hit on all cylinders with "push 'em up" Tony Mischo and Harlan Gustafson leading the way to a 23 to 12 halftime margin...
Poles, Dogs, Germans, Italians. Not bound by the hampering views of an intelligent electorate, the Polish oligarchy does about what it pleases, and while this may make trouble for the electorate, it also gives Poland's dictatorial neighbors pause. It is part of Germany's push-to-the-east program to unite all the Ukrainians. But autonomist movements among the 3,200,000* Ukrainians in the southeast of Poland can be and have been suppressed by Warsaw with little regard for civil rights...