Word: push
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Moreover, the fortnight delay in House debate and the predictable foot-dragging of Southern Senators would push Senate crucial votes into early spring, when Johnson's rivals for the Democratic nomination - Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey - would be most anxious to be off campaigning in Wisconsin for the April 5 primary. But what good Democratic candidate would risk missing a civil rights debate, even if it starred Lyndon Johnson...
When voters in a Portland, Ore. suburb recently torpedoed a tax increase that would have provided more money for their schools, Superintendent of Schools Floyd Light knew just what the trouble was: Wilma Morrison, education editor of the union-struck Portland Oregonian, had not been around to push for the measure. Said Light darkly: "Her being out definitely hurt us. The story was not brought before the public...
...secret that the word was changed. Moore was pasted firmly in place on next season's schedule. His Garry Moore Show has clobbered Star-time in the ratings. "I've been given credit for being a giant killer," says Moore, "but I didn't push Ford. It just fell. There just aren't enough stars around to be able to produce one great, brand-new show after another for 39 weeks...
...that should lengthen the overall uptrend of the economy. Most Wall Streeters now do not believe that there will be a recession in 1961. As for the market, it may well take a breather until first-quarter reports. They are expected to be good, give stocks a new upward push...
...named Ira Eaker flew north to help save the crew. At one point during that mission, Quesada got lost flying above the clouds. He began thinking "how marvelous it would be if there were some way to do airborne refueling on a continuous basis." Quesada later got Eaker to push his idea with high Air Corps brass. The result was the famous Question Mark flight of 1929, in which Quesada and future bannerline Air Force Generals Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and Ira Eaker participated. Refueled by a second plane, Question Mark, an Army Fokker monoplane, stayed aloft for a record-breakin...