Word: shove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their third fight and the honors were even. In their first, attacking with hand-grenade punches, Saddler had won by a fourth-round knockout. Willie had won the second, a 15-round decision, by his own superb combination of light, windmill jabs, dodging footwork and his uncanny ability to shove, nudge and push his opponent off balance. For the third go last week, the fans thought they knew pretty much what to expect; the smart money was on youth and Sandy Saddler's hand grenades...
Said a Wall Street trader: "When you expect stocks to go down and they simply refuse to do it, it's time to start looking the other way." Last week, so many investors looked the other way that they gave the bull market its second biggest shove since its birth last June. A surge of buying, much of it from notably cautious investment trusts, sent blue-chip stocks soaring as much as eight points, and pushed the Dow-Jones industrial average to 208.09, the highest since June...
...mile in 46 seconds, faster than any man in history. But when he tried to run on indoor tracks, where the footing is treacherous and lanes are nonexistent, he learned that he needed more than sheer speed; when fields jam up on sharply banked indoor turns, a judicious elbow shove can throw the fastest man off his stride and out of the running. Said Runner McKenley: "I didn't know how to defend myself...