Word: shoved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lunden pointed out that this would naturally shove undergraduates further down the field besides putting high-priority "H" men in what would be non-priority seats at Soldiers Field. He said the difference is much more noticeable at West Point than it would be here because the Harvard side of Michic Stadium is only 18 rows high...
Canada's policy towards her Indians was laid down 68 years ago. It was a simple policy: shove them off on reservations as wards of the government. As dutiful a guardian as its neighbor to the south, the government fed & clothed its wards and looked after their health. But the red men remained a race apart, with the rights of second-class citizens...
...Gentle Little Shove." Responsible Congressmen from both sides of the aisle protested in vain. Some of the reductions were made by extending the spending period for ECA and China aid from twelve to 15 months. Hoping to restore the twelve-month spending period, Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen warned: "If we fail in this first year we shall fail for good . . . This cut may be the gentle little shove that may throw the government of France into the ashcan." Minority Leader Sam Rayburn, his bald head glistening under the hot House lights, pleaded: "Let us not do too little...
Russian obduracy was based on the hope that democracy needed just one more shove before it collapsed. The U.S. intended to prove that it would not collapse. If the Russians were forced to realize that Communism had to live in the world with democracy, George Marshall thought, they would cooperate. Until they did, forcing changes in the forms of international cooperation was not only wasted but also dangerous effort...
...last week, he had a rich, satisfying 18 hours. He had begun to get curious-and just a little nervous-about the Democratic bandwagon rolling towards General Ike's door. It was Roberts who had first given that wagon a shove down the Republican road and he who had announced-long in advance of Eisenhower's own statement-that Ike would decline...