Word: pushing
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Died. John Collier, 84, anthropologist and writer, who as Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1933-45) fought to secure civil rights for the American Indian; in Taos, N. Mex. In 1934, Collier scored his greatest coup, the Indian Reorganization Act, a "constitution" that he helped push through Congress, gave the earliest Americans home rule and protection from unscrupulous white traders and land grabbers...
Depth was a major factor in Winthrop's win. In its strongest winter performance ever, it grabbed seconds in hockey and squash. Third place finishes in golf, boxing, fencing, and tennis, and a fourth in track provided the points needed to push Winthrop...
...second half, Harvard failed to score. Yale retained the push from their fluke goal and ran the score to 9-5, before it mercifully decided to freeze the ball for the remaining minutes
...took three months and the death of Martin Luther King to push them through. They came finally with a faculty vote on April 10. In important ways, the spate of proposals constituted a real break-through in the School's urban posture. Voting to recruit minority group students, the faculty struck down the School's traditional definition of competence, admitting for the first time that race and ghetto experience are important. "The way we've been recruiting minority group students," Sizer said right after the April 10 meeting, "was the wrong...
...went before Parliament last week and, in his first formal appearance as leader of the country, dissolved Parliament and called for new general elections on June 25. Thus, ignoring considerable party opinion that he should prove himself to the voters before going to the polls, Trudeau decided to push ahead and try to capitalize on the political momentum that propelled him almost overnight from the Justice Ministry in Pearson's government into his country...