Word: shove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down a well-greased slide, at Glasgow, lurched, last week, the portly Duchess of Bedford. A burly workman had tipped the mechanism of the slide, giving her a shove. At her had been hurled a bottle of champagne by Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, pious, charitable wife of the Prime Min- ister...
...time requirement, which have always been in my experience that everybody must begin his meal within a fixed hour or an hour and a half. When Memorial Hall was very crowded eighteen men were seated at a table seating twelve and they were expected as they came, in to shove up next to the men already seated. This was supposed to bring every man into direct contact with the other seventeen That seemed to work pretty well...
...impassive burlies who usually sit on the aisle side of the seat. Just before the trains reach Ossining station there is a platform at the base of gray rock bastions which tower above the track. Here the trains stop and the burlies yank their reluctant companions to their feet, shove them shuffling ahead to the end of the car and down the steps. The train pulls out through a short tunnel as the burlies usher their charges off the platform into Sing Sing, New York's famed state penitentiary...
...Gary almost always gets his way. He makes up his mind and then applies an exceedingly subtle way of argument. He pats his opponent on the back. As he pats he gives a little shove, then another little shove. Soon the opponent is gently shoved onto Mr. Gary's own premises. The debate is settled. He deprecates antagonisms. To contrary views he agrees with a "but" and eventually butts his exceptions into the well-patterned decision he held at the beginning of discussion...
...sped the batsmen along the pitch-too late! An alert "Kangaroo" had shot the ball into the wicket keeper's gloved hands and a fraction of a second later the ball flew off the stumps just a fraction of a second before the English batsman could shove his bat over the "popping crease" (batting line). England was beaten. Loud cheers and glad faces in Australia. Silence and long faces in England...