Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elephant grass was thicker than anyone had imagined. After this month's riots, Johnson felt that urban and poverty programs would have to be expanded rather than cut. Though he also vetoed any major troop increase for Viet Nam, he did approve increments that would push war spending up by at least $2.5 billion...
There are only two college crews in the East which can hope to seriously push the varsity Crimson shell this year: Northeastern and Pennsylvania. Last year, the Huskies came within one second of Harvard in the season debut. Harvard's coach Harry Parker says he is "impressed" with Northeastern's improvement since then...
...javelin, Princeton's Bauer may push Frank Champi to a Crimson record. Champi threw 225 ft. in practice this week, while Bauer hurled 202 ft. against Penn. The existing Harvard mark...
...appeared at first to be threatened mainly by the unrest of students and intellectuals, turns out to be more immediately challenged by an inner group that has used that unrest for its own ambitious purposes. Harder-lining than Gomulka, the men who make up this group have maneuvered to push their own people into power, used anti-Zionism as a club to purge many government functionaries and encouraged criticism of Gomulka in the press. They are finding, however, that the wily Gomulka, 63, who spent five years in prison for his anti-Stalinist stand before becoming party boss...
...delight of my fellows, he began to push my chair out the back door--to little avail. Next he picked up my briefcase and said, "Come with me." As he was nearing the back of the room I called, "I'll sue you if you lose that." In despair he waddled off to fetch the Lieutenant...