Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson drive from its own 20 stalled on the Brown 47, and the Bruins proceeded from their 20 to their second touchdown. Harvard's longest push of the games came in the second period when it went 80 yards to score...
...Metro is closed from 1 until 6 in the morning. Rush hours occur just about the same time as in a U.S. city. The crowds are heavy too, but they do not push their way in & out of cars with the blunt fury of stampeding cattle (as is customary in New York City). Said one U.S. correspondent formerly stationed in the Soviet capital: "The Russian people just move along ploddingly; they are not nearly so ferocious...
...Push-Ups for Warmth. Consul Paul Paddock and Vice Consul Culver Gleysteen arrived in Dairen in June 1948. From that time on, they were sealed off from all except occasional radio contact with the outside world. In 14 months, they received mail twice. During the last four months of their stay, the Russians made daily attempts to jam their radio contacts with the U.S. State Department...
...occasion, Gleysteen was arrested and charged with "signaling out to sea with the lights of his jeep." He was held for two hours in an ice-cold waiting room where he did push-ups to keep warm while Paddock argued for his release. Said Paddock: "The fact that it was not quite dark and that the jeep was pointed inland would seem sufficient to disprove the charge...
...Humphrey Bogart reminisced a bit. The judge who dismissed the girl's suit, he thought, was "a nice guy-the Frank Morgan type." But Bogart decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention the pursuit of happiness...