Word: shove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's drive for freer trade last week got another small, but helpful, shove forward. The United States Tariff Commission turned down a request by the Watch Attachment Manufacturers Association for higher import duties on foreign-made metal watch bracelets. The association argued that the "escape clause" of the Trade Agreements Extension Act should be invoked because increased imports of cheap foreign bracelets had seriously cut into the sales of U.S. producers. (Foreign bracelets made up 20% of sales last year v. 0.7% in 1947). The commission threw some statistics back at the U.S. bracelet makers. Total sales...
...duty? Suppose these legislators framed a bill for teachers to get on their knees and recite five times "I'll be a good teacher," would that still have to be accepted as law? The fact that private colleges are tax free does not give state legislators the right to shove the professors around...
...crowned when he became a member of the Institute of Traffic Engineers. In a sense, Barnes was still an intern when he came to Denver. But he saw almost instantly that he had to do more than prescribe massive medication-he also had to hog-tie his patient and shove his pills down the municipal gullet...
Torrey twice stopped Amory Hubbard coming in all alone, but it was only a matter of time. In the last period, Hubbard wound up on his own blue line, then skated the length of the ice to shove the puck past Torrey. Ten minutes later he took a pass from Captain Walt Greeley in front of the Tiger net and scored-again...
...price supports should be used only as "insurance against disaster," 2) farmers "should not be placed in the position of working for Government bounty rather than producing for a free market." Back in Washington the next day, Benson let it be known that he does not intend to shove Government supports under sagging cattle prices, because there is no "feasible method" for doing...