Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most teams know I don't get too many shots off the foul line, so they don't put a real tough man on me," Williams said. "They start to push when we get a few baskets on picks...
...simply. A defender will hold Williams to keep him from getting in to rebound, elbow around him to get at a guard about to shoot, or grab him for balance when a player cuts behind the high post. Some teams are rough for roughness' sake. "B.C. was trying to push me off the line--period," Williams said. "The ref kept saying, 'Take it easy, take it easy.' I kept saying, 'Don't take it easy, call a foul...
...said was that we could not now or in the foreseeable future win the war in Vietnam. I also said that we could not afford to lose the war and that there was no reason why we had to lose the war unless the North Vietnamese were determined to push the conquest of the South at all costs to themselves. Our current policy, which I did endorse, warns the North that they can escalate the war in the South only at the price of our escalating in the North. Presumably the two things the North Vietnamese leaders want most...
...economy began moving too fast some 14 months ago, the Bank of Japan, which exerts a stronger control over money and banking than that held by the U.S. Federal Reserve System, adopted a tight money policy. Tighter money slowed down internal consumption, discouraged industry from expanding and made businessmen push exports to counter the cutback at home. The result is that Japan has rebounded from a trade deficit in 1963 to what is expected to be a substantial surplus in the first quarter of this year. Because business confidence has suffered in the process, the Bank of Japan has begun...
...clobber him unconscious. Shirtless and wearing German army caps, they join a German troop convoy and narrowly escape disaster when a French P.W. in the convoy recognizes one of the fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push the car out of a ditch with their captive at the wheel and gape helplessly as he drives off with all their weapons. The captive becomes the captor, but not for long...