Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hogewood and De LaVega reached the Indoor Athletic Building, two gang members approached them and began to push them around. One swung at Hogewood, who ducked...
...this time along with Victor Hugo and Antoine de St. Exupery ("We are all passengers on the same boat, which is earth"). Then Gorbachev lambasted any "attempt to transfer military rivalry into space, as if there wasn't enough of it on earth." Finally, he added, "If those who push this matter insist on continuing their dangerous course of action, the world will find itself facing hard times...
...reached his greatest milestone. After leading the Tigers to victory over Prairie View at the Cotton Bowl, the plain-talking sharecropper's son from Jackson, La., was 324-106-15, passing Bear Bryant's record for winning the most games in college football history. Three more wins will push him past George Halas, who was the winningest coach in pro football. "Sometimes after practice," one awed player told a reporter, "we just stand and look...
...country's system of apartheid. At the time, prominent South African officials had put out the word that Botha planned to announce a package of unprecedented reforms, and expectations were high. Instead of demonstrating flexibility, however, Botha delivered a finger-wagging sermon that warned foreign governments not to "push us too far." His intransigence only hardened demands for bold reforms. Whereas many critics were disposed in August to consider a gradual easing of apartheid, by last week, as Botha's state of emergency entered its twelfth week and two more blacks were killed by riot police, they seemed unwilling...
...addition to urbanization, one of the primary forces behind secularization in the United States has been the push by the consciousness industry to create receptivity for artificial appetites in consumers. To establish new social space for the imposition of consumer needs, capital has advanced the delegitimition of the emphasis on God that is central to precapitalist social systems...