Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samaritan. In Philadelphia, a stranger stopped to help Walter Bowe push his stalled car, suggested that he work the starter while Bowe pushed, managed to start the motor, disappeared with...
Coping with female students, he reported, could be literally overwhelming. "When [a professor] meets them coming down the sidewalk toward him three abreast, they refuse to break rank and simply push him off into the grass . . . They invariably park their bicycles right in front of the door or the steps and let you fall over them as you come out. If you survive that, they ride down upon you from the rear as silently as Indians...
When he gets his 1,000 salesmen well indoctrinated in his sales-generating ideas, Cummings may take to the road again. Says he: "Sitting in a La Salle Street board room and push-buttoning out quotas to vice presidents won't keep business booming...
From this simple arrangement Mr. Bowles seeks to establish the lack of moral and social authors which permits the tides of life to push us all about one way or another. But the lurid quality of Kit's refuge in the "friendly carnal presence" of the nearest male makes the jump from the naturalistic to the symbolic level difficult...
...Smith, working from his usual post under the backboard, picked up 20 points to trail Rock well in scoring. Gerry Murphy, Jim Gable, and Bill Hickey started on the back line. Murphy's push shot from outside was effective against the concentrated Navy defense...