Word: pusher
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...Keeping a brisk pace, the wheelbarrow pusher has covered a staggering 58 km a day so far-traveling faster than the Gladesville postal worker Nobby Young, who at 44 km a day over 365 days, set a record pace for circumnavigating Australia in 1994. But the very Zen-like Shaw would seem to be in no real hurry to return to Ringwood. "Back on the Nullarbor," he says, of the limestone plateau he's just crossed, "you can hear the bark peeling off the trees. It's amazing-it's just that quiet. You become part of the land...
...late-night roamer on Boston’s Putnam Avenue was pushed by an unknown assailant who then abruptly ran away last Saturday. The victim approached a HUPD officer and alerted him or her to the walk-by pusher. Police searched the area but to no avail—the shove-and-run perpetrator was nowhere to be found...
...retirement to compete, bulking up with an old sumo trick: eat chanko nabe, a rich stew, then promptly go to sleep. But size ultimately matters less than technique--there are 70 moves a wrestler can use to get his opponent out of the ring. "I'm a pusher, a thruster," says Kaleo, who fights for Japan. "I come out like a boo rush." An all-American sumo to watch is Yale graduate and math teacher Kena Heffernan. "He's a very exciting wrestler but not that big," says Yonezuka. "Only...
...debilitated patients who, it’s no surprise, would probably stand to benefit from xenotransplantation technology. There are, however, areas where the narrative excels. He recounts an entertaining history of early attempts at xenotransplantation, most notably the exploits of traveling doctor John R. Brinkley, a snake-oil pusher of the 1920s. Brinkley’s scam was convincing hundreds of American men that they could cure impotence (and restore their all-around vitality) through implanting goat testicles alongside their own gonads...
...THOMAS WATKINS Pill Pusher...