Word: shove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, after two more planes had dropped survival gear, Hodgkin got worried about all the money being wasted on him. "I just pulled the tie ropes, gave the ship a shove downhill and away I went, just like an eagle." The B-17 flew over again. "The bird's flown the coop," its radio cackled. Hodgkin, still unable to start his engine, had calmly dead-sticked in to a landing on a frozen lake, 9,071 feet below...
...power is needed, fuel is squirted into the stream of hot gas racing out of the tailpipe. There is plenty of heat to ignite it and plenty of oxygen to keep it alight. So a vast yellow flame bursts out of the pipe, and the plane gets a mighty shove forward...
Unlike Michigan, Yale doesn't build an orchestrated night club and an informal cabaret for its charges. Unlike Harvard, it doesn't shove students off to costly restaurants and local saloons as soon as the sun sets. Within the limits of decency and trust, it lets its students use the facilities of the college, which are better suited and which the students would rather use in the first place...
...manufacture its own products. When George learned that baking powder consisted only of soda and a carbonate, he screened off part of the Vesey Street store and set a chemist to turning it out. But it was bold, adventurous John who gave A & P its biggest shove, and made it continent-spanning in fact as well as name...
Last week the trade was rocking with a different story. What was really keeping 83-year-old Arturo Toscanini from the podium was not the ailing knee, blared Variety in Page One headlines, but a "shove-around...