Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tuscan host. Provoked by this latest demonstration of organized labor's willfulness, the leaders of the 80th Congress thumbed over pages of proposed antilabor legislation. Above the coal pits, above all of organized labor, the pendulum of public opinion swung. Lewis himself had given it a big push towards intolerance. A general strike in Oakland, Calif, was hastily called off by A.F.L. labor leaders who saw the way the pendulum was swinging...
...Gets Pushed? At the London Airport, where they were greeted by Britain's aging, able Lord Pethick-Lawrence, local Indians were out before dawn in coal trucks, bicycles and buses. A policeman grumbled: "You can't tell by looking at these Indians who are the VIPs and who are the riffraff. One day you're arresting a fellow and the next he turns up as an important bloke. . . . You never can tell who to push around...
...Kirkland) sang the music of The Pink Lady, secretly bombarded actresses with letters, tried for a job with a Boston stock company. But her father (Fredric March) wanted her to teach physical education, and her father was a formidable man. It needed all Ruth's courage, plus a push from her sympathetic mother (Florence Eldridge), to confess her hopes to this quick-tempered old bear who growled at everything from churches to telephones. But Father heard Ruth out with surprising calm-he sensed her tenaciousness if not her talent...
Rockwell, a six foot three inch forward, has shown great scoring ability in practices as he is equally effective with set shots and right or left hand push shots...
Ordinarily the evening's basketball will begin at 8:30 o'clock, unless the Varsity game is preceeded by a Jayvee or Freshman affair, which will push the time up to 7:30 o'clock...