Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a cowboy but smokes Marlboros. Tall (6 ft.), blond, ruggedly handsome and beguilingly informal, he flew off on a four-day tour of the Midwest last week carrying a green knapsack decorated with a KEEP BETTY IN THE WHITE HOUSE button. People often confuse the Ford sons and push their way up to Jack to say, "Gee, Mike," or "Gee, Steve, can I have your autograph?" Rather than embarrass anybody, Jack signs the appropriate name. One of Jack's recurring problems is how to dodge the blind dates that his hosts eagerly set up with their daughters. While...
...shrill voice at the mike when Chico Ruiz stole home to give the Reds a 1-0 victory and start the Phils on their nine-day September '64 nosedive. I recall reading the front-page story about Richie Allen putting his hand through a headlight while trying to push his car, thus ending the Phillies' season before it began. And how about the untold number of games lost in the seventh inning as Manager Gene Mauch motioned arsonist after arsonist in from the bullpen? I would snap off the radio rather than listen to that last painful "...going, gone...
...looks like an overbuilt bicycle, sounds like an impatient teakettle and, in fact, combines pedal power with petroleum push. Called a moped (from motor-plus-pedals), the motorized bike is catching on rapidly in the U.S. as a practical, inexpensive form of short-haul transportation for commuters, students, the elderly and fresh-air lovers out for a spin-not to mention the suburban housewife who is reluctant to drive a gas-guzzling, nine-passenger station wagon two miles for a can of tuna. Since it whirs along on a two-stroke minimotor with less horsepower than a power mower, goes...
...continued life of the revolution, Terrill believes, "you can't sustain a revolution forever--that's the internal logic and the sociology of it." Revolution happens, he says, when people feel an intolerable injustice, but it is not required in the push for perfectability. Terrill does allow for the possibility that the Chinese will grow apathetic, making it easier for a rigid bureaucracy to take root--"the old combination of legalism from above and Taoism from below...
...known for their gentle dispositions were apparently driven to a frenzy. Matt Bowyer, one of the quietest players on the team, reacted to what he considered to be an undetected foul by pushing back. The officials saw that push, and the Crimson midfielder was ejected from the game...