Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drove home persuasively the point that, much as the U.S. wants peace and friendship, it cannot and will not be pushed around-and that in the nuclear age, attempts to push around add up to deadly folly...
...Push. The Quinns moved into a house on Portlock Road near Diamond Head, where many a newcoming mainland family settled down. A bright lawyer, gifted with exuberant charm and bottomless energy, Bill soon had his teeth sunk into virtually every aspect of island life that appealed to him-especially theatricals (Mr. Roberts, Brigadoon) and politics ("Politics is a happy combination of theater and law"). Some acquaintances say that Quinn was really a Democrat, but switched to the G.O.P. because the Democratic Party in the islands lacked stability and purpose. Says he: "I had a choice: I could either join...
...Hans Hoffman: "The pictorial life as a pictorial reality results from the aggregate of two-and three-dimensional tensions: a combination of the effect of simultaneous expansion and contraction with that of push and pull...
...nuclear reactor to provide heat and power for a year on one fueling. The first small portable reactor, now being built by Alco Products, Inc. at Dunkirk, N.Y. for the U.S. Army, is scheduled for installation in the Arctic next year. When it works, the Arctic frontier will indeed push on and on toward the North Pole...
...strike for higher wages. Said an officer of U.S. Steel, the industry's leader: "Our earnings are pretty large. I guess they could come out at a better time. But we are taking it like good sports, proud to have done so well. Even after wage-cost push, depreciation, wasteful practices and such, we still have an awfully big hunk of dough left over...