Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telling a boy to have courage and make the plunge to claim his girl ("You have found her/Now go and get her"). When the Beatles are urged basically the same thing in "She Loves You," they openly and joyously exhorted; "Hey Jude" is inexpressibly tender, muted and moving. The push into passion that the Beatles delicately say for their friend...
...After listening to Humphrey's enthusiastic endorsement of Daley's doings, what I'm going to do on Nov. 5 is take a tranquilizer, go to the voting booth, hold my breath, think about something else, and push the button that says Nixon...
There was reason enough to be sanguine. Beginning his push in Chicago, where the Democratic cause had been staggered by police clubs the week before, Nixon received a warm reception from huge noontime crowds in the Loop. During his 45-minute ride through the heart of the city, confetti poured from office buildings. Signs screamed VIVA NIXON and DUMP HUMP-NIXON'S THE ONE. People jumped through police lines to shake the candidate's hand. While the excitement hardly matched a Robert Kennedy happening, Nixon, like Kennedy before him, suffered a scratched wrist and lost a cuff link...
...squeak out a victory. In 27 games, they have scored the winning run in their last turn at bat. A tight defense, enough depth to permit platooning of players, and a strong bullpen crew that has saved 21 games so far, have all figured strongly in Detroit's push toward the pennant...
...understandably jubilant. At a time of year when they are often backing down, automen are happily revising earlier forecasts upward. Chrysler President Virgil Boyd, in one of the year's more conservative estimates, predicts that 9.3 million car sales are pretty much a certainty. That might very well push 1968 over 1965, when the total sales, including 575,000 imports, added up to a record 9,313,912 cars...