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Word: shoving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Added another, "It just plain isn't very exciting. Hard work, yes. But not exciting. This place has a cafeteria view of education; they just shove the knowledge in front of you and let you take what you want. It is so passive, so uninteresting, so mechanical you want to go nuts, sometimes...

Author: By J.michael Crichton, | Title: Smith College: The Middle Way | 3/26/1963 | See Source »

Some 40 colleges simply acknowledge that freshmen studies tend to duplicate what modern students learn in high schools, and shove students out after three years and some summer work. In Los Angeles, 250 high school students take courses at U.C.L.A. At nearby U.S.C., other students polish off their senior high school and freshmen college years simultaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Saving Liberal Arts | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Quicker than he might have thought, Holden is going to be challenged to put up or shove off. Under new, tax regulations effective Jan. 1, 1963, U.S. citizens living abroad will no longer be totally exempt from taxation on money earned overseas. Actually a maximum of $35,000 can still be clear, but that's all. Holden will probably stick by his loyalty to Switzerland anyway. Where else could he have George Sanders, Gregory Peck, Charlie Chaplin, Yul Brynner. Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Stewart Granger, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Ustinov, Noel Coward, David Niven, Jack Palance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Some of the Worms Are Turning | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...hours each year warming the baby's formula in a hot-water bath, then splashing a couple of drops on their wrists to make sure that it has reached body temperature, are wasting their time. They may just as well take the bottle out of the refrigerator and shove the cold nipple right into baby's mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Wives' Tales | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...Federation last week. "And we're happy to be tough enough to deserve the title." A few blocks away on Independence Avenue, a determined Farm Bureau foe was also warming to the fight. Night and day, Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman, 43, was trying to find ways to shove his controversial farm bill through a balky Congress. "Nobody has mentioned compromise yet," said a Freeman aide. "The Secretary wants this bill and he's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Pixy & the Gladiators | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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