Word: push
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Until that happens, the strike will go on and the UFWOC will continue to push its boycott of all table grapes-except those bearing the union label of a stylized black eagle against a red background. Said William Kircher, national organization director for the A.F.L.-C.I.O.: "We are going to expect every fair-minded citizen to have an awfully good appetite for grapes with this kind of label, and an awfully bad appetite for the other kind...
...looked down as he began to talk. I looked down too. "I saw Felix Greene's 'Inside North Vietnam.' I went to see it every night for a week. There was this one scene where a buffalo boy got machine gunned by American planes as he was trying to push his buffalo to cover...
Strangely enough, although verbally Sargent downplayed the importance of the bill's political stand, he took definite action under his power as governor to push the bill and give it implicit support. Not only did the governor sign the bill instead of letting it become law without signature, but he added an emergency letter to the bill making its legislation effective immediately, instead of waiting the usual 90 days before becoming law. Governor Sargent thus managed to create two impressions in his act of signing the Shea Bill. His expressed doubts and reservations will mollify conservative elements in the state...
Back in the winter of '68-'69 Morrison's Astral Weeks was released, a record which never sold well in spite of a large production push about eight months later. At this point, Morrison had given up such lyrical simplicity...
Coup Rumors. In Laos, the question was how far the six battalions of North Vietnamese troops that were probing Laotian defenses around Long Cheng intended to go. Would they overrun the base and keep moving right to the plains just north of Vientiane? A major push seemed several days off at least, but U.S. advisers and government defenders prepared a fallback position at Ban Son, 20 miles south of the base. Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes continued to bomb Communist supply routes across northern Laos. Despite U.S. estimates that the air attacks have inflicted 20% casualties on Communist units, the bombing...