Pushback?

[Jonathan Lighter]

In my experience, "push back" (as a verb) quickly became common in the news
after Nine-Eleven. I recall the unspeakable Ward Churchill talking about
the Third World "pushing back" at last against the United States.

The noun is rather more recent.

JL

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Martin Kaminer
<martin.kaminer at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Good point.  I'm looking now on a number of ".mil" sites but seeing it
> used only in the sense of "resistance to an idea, suggestion or
> proposal" eg  http://www.army.mil/search/?search=pushback
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> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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> > Was "Pushback" used in any official dispatch? I only see it in the
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> > written by the AFPO, the Armed Forces Press Office, the US military's PR
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