Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When North Carolina's Senator J. Melville Broughton died early this month, after only four months in office, the pressure squads closed in fast on Governor Kerr Scott to push their favorite candidates. But last week Kerr Scott tore up their lists and shook Tarheel professionals to their political roots. The man he chose for the seat was the University of North Carolina's scrappy little President Frank Porter Graham (TIME, Jan. 3), who has made a career of fighting old Southern prejudices...
Opponents feared that some less benign censorship might replace the traditional office, now held by the 71-year-old Earl of Clarendon. But the House gave the bill a second-reading vote of 76 to 37 to push it along toward passage...
...Metropolitan Opera is back in town, and Harvard men are again signing for walk-on parts at $1 a night. Each evening about 20 students don tights and helmets, push onto a crowded stage, and burble background noises. The Crimson sent a reporter to the scene for an eyewitness report of their activities...
Davenport plans to finish the whole thing this term. Then the press will hold another field day, and the public will finally get into the grey, windowless building on Oxford Street. What they'll see will be the biggest machine in the University push the smallest thing in the Universe at the fastest speed made...
Grappling with such matters, Wright has had to push aside some of his own work (including a book on the Federalist Papers, which he never got around to finishing), but he still takes time to read novels ("anything but detective stories"), listen to Mozart records and play with his two children and two cats. At Smith, one of his jobs will be to raise the $2,000,000 left to go in the college's $7,000,000 drive. Beyond that, he claims to have no revolutionary plans for Smith ("This whole thing has happened rather suddenly"). But Smith...