Word: push
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...doing?" the scientists will ask. "What's the extent of high-energy radiation, the density of cosmic dust, the temperature, the quality of magnetic fields? What's the weather like?" And the answers, delivered by radio into machines on the rotating earth will push the dialogue onward, enabling man one day to launch himself into space...
...more hospitable climate: Canada. Last week in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke,* 1,000 TV-owning families could sit back and see a first-run movie or sports event uninterrupted by commercials. All they had to do was slip $1 in nickels, dimes or quarters into a box and push the button. Among the first shows: The Nun's Story, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The FBI Story...
...against the hypocrisy of Oklahoma's prohibition law, Tulsa's redheaded, young (then 32) J. Howard Edmondson won the 1958 gubernatorial runoff primary, brashly upset the Dry-favored candidate slated by the old guard Democratic machine. Elected Governor, he got prohibition repealed by referendum, went on to push for such general reform measures as legislative reapportionment, a patronage-free highway committee, a merit system for state employees. Still popular with the voters, he might have won most of his proposals had he not continued to snub the old political hands and to make a big to-do about...
...broad shoulder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has provided the Negroes' biggest push in the legal drive for integration in the South. In retaliation, Southern state and local officials have tried to push the N.A.A.C.P. into publishing the names of its members and contributors. At the height of Arkansas' racial turmoil in 1957, Little Rock and North Little Rock sought legal leverage by amending their business license ordinances to list the N.A.A.C.P. as a business, demanded that Negro leaders file membership lists for the public record. To protect their followers from bullying...
...assault. His strategy: pigeonhole the Holman resolution in Rhyne's own Committee on World Peace through Law. It worked. After Malone's speech and others, the question came to a vote, wound up with a ringing 127-68 defeat for Holman and an added push for repeal of the Connally Reservation...