Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though he took little exercise after he was 45, one day when he was 80 he caught 148 fish. In national politics an unfailing Republican, in local politics he was an independent. "His farewell handshake was courtesy and geniality itself, at the same time it was a gentle push toward the door...
...numbers of British and U. S. financiers decided that Abdul the Damned's heirs had a good case in international law. With the understanding that they were to receive a fat slice of any funds paid to Abdul's heirs, they successively organized three corporations to push the legal battle: Anglo-Hellenic Corp., succeeded by Valideh Trust, Ltd., and finally Aegean Financial Trust. † Not satisfied with last week's 50 millions from Greece, officials of the Aegean Financial Trust announced that they had every hope of obtaining an additional billion for their clients from the Kingdom...
...testimony of the desire of the officials in charge to allow men to show what they did know instead of what they did not know. But the length of the examination cut short (because of the purely physical limitations of writing) the answers of those who were eager to push beyond the obvious and often repeated facts...
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