Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ball's bills were not politically expedient. Even if he did push them over on the Senate floor and get the House to go along, they would certainly face a presidential veto, in whole or in part. Then the fight would start all over again...
Shortly thereafter, Daveron and the R.D.C. agents in Rio had a difference of opinion. Daveron wanted to push west through the plains of Bolivia, then north to the rubber country. The R.D.C. preferred the route that followed the old telegraph line strung diagonally across the great Brazilian plateau by General Candido Mariano Rondon, a famed Indianologist. Neither side budged. So the R.D.C., despairing of the mules project, sold most of the beasts...
Coach Hal Ulen, going into the story-telling relay with a slight two point margin, got blood with the last pound of push out of all his men, but particularly Walt Bullard. This hardworking freestyler took first in the 220, second to Dick Hartung in the 100, and swam a creditable second leg of the ill fated relay...
...only Balkan country still outside the Iron Curtain, and its frontier with Slav lands to the north (Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania) is in fact a frontier between two worlds. The U.N. commission was in Athens last week because Greece charged that Russia's allies were trying to push that frontier south...
Divergent opinions were voiced by Democratic leader Rayburn, who said the proposed $6,000,000,000 slash would help push reluctant millions of people abroad "into the arms of Communism," and Rep. Engel (R-Mich), chairman of the Army appropriations subcommittee, who declared that if General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz cannot run the army and Navy efficiently on less money they "ought to stop aside and give someone else a chance...