Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also concerned that transplanting children from the Pit, which is secured by a police presence, will push our children beyond where we can watch them," Gifford said...
...Freshmen will push people a little harder," Carswell said. "They'll give some encouragement to the rest of the team...
...took a deep breath. The last thing I needed was to push the commander in the field over the edge on the eve of battle. "You're not losing it," I said. "We've just got a problem we have to work out. You have the full confidence of all of us back here. At the end of the day, you know I'm going to carry your message, and we'll do it your way." It was time to break off the conversation before one of us threw another match into the gasoline...
...didn't we push on to Baghdad once we had Saddam on the run? Or, to put it another way, why didn't we move the goalposts? What tends to be forgotten is that while the U.S. led the way, we were heading an international coalition carrying out a clearly defined U.N. mission. That mission was accomplished...
...quite the Hunts Point I was raised in, although it was hardly elm trees and picket fences. We kept our doors and windows locked. I remember a steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace on the floor so that no one could push in the door. Burglaries were common. Drug use was on the rise. Yet crime and violence in those days did not begin to suggest the social breakdown depicted in Fort Apache. That was yet to come...