Word: pusher
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...pick a fight, to get you to listen close and to give a sense of rock history. There is even a glossary. Maybe you're worried because the kids have started talking about doo-wops, and you think its something they're buying off the homeroom pusher. You could look it up. And relax...
...chess player turned out by Fidelity Electronics nearly three years ago. Back then it seemed remarkable that a tiny computer could play chess at all, even though its play was less than brilliant. Now the chess ability of the reprogrammed chip is high enough to make any parlor wood-pusher loosen his collar and roll up his sleeves, and it is the machine's distinctly machine-like speech that is the dazzling gimmick. Turn the doodad on, and it says, dropping each word like a cinder block, "I- am- Fidelity's - Chess - Challenger - your -computer - opponent." The speech...
...passage is one of the few in The Man Who Kept the Secrets where Helms becomes emotional, where he seems anything more than the competent paper pusher who keeps things moving without rocking the boat. Although it is commonly recognized that the CIA acts on the whims and wishes of whomever occupies the White House, and not as the non-partisan intelligence-gathering organization originally envisioned in the National Security Act of 1947, the crassness of Nixon's attempt to use the CIA for domestic politics apparently struck a raw nerve in Helms...
...situation is not much better on campus. He somehow remembers a pusher going door to door in Kirkland House selling heroin--curious, in retrospect, considering you can't even bum a cigarette in Kirkland House nowadays. During punching season, he is shocked by a conversation with Porcellian Club members, who tell him he must learn to party if he joins. He declines. He bemoans the decadence symbolized by Linda Lovelace's 1974 visit to Harvard...
...situation is not much better on campus. He somehow remembers a pusher going door to door in Kirkland House selling heroin--curious, in retrospect, considering you can't even bum a cigarette in Kirkland House nowadays. During punching season, he is shocked by a conversation with Porcellian Club members, who tell him he must learn to party if he joins. He declines. He bemoans the decadence symbolized by Linda Lovelace's 1974 visit to Harvard...