Word: shove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miracle," became Vice Chancellor only 16 months ago. He had given Adenauer his winning prosperity issue and his most effective stump-speaking support and was widely regarded as the Chancellor's likely successor. But the old man, still tolerating no rivals at 83, moved suddenly and swiftly to shove his most powerful minister up to the largely honorific office that President Theodor Heuss is to vacate next July at the end of two five-year terms...
...never known a man in the athletic world who has been a greater inspiration." Another was wartime colleague Winston Churchill: He was "great in the carrying of responsibility . . . You had to hang on tight to your basic conviction because the first thing you knew he would shove you out of it, but when the decision was reached he was absolutely loyal." There were others: General George Marshall, General Omar Bradley and Britain's Royal Air Force Marshal Portal. Said Dwight Eisenhower: "Each of these men, like each of us, had his own strengths, and here and there, I should...
...dormitory looks a good deal less hospitable from the outside. No student living there will ever have an experience like that of one Smith alumna who lived in an old-fashioned dorm. Clambering in through a ground-floor window one night after hours (10 p.m.), she felt a friendly shove from behind, looked around to see Smith President William Allan Neilson winking...
...Pressagents gave a mighty buildup to Heavyweight Challenger Roy Harris, 25, of Cut and Shoot. Texas, but they forgot to give him a mighty punch. Half with a right and half with a shove, Harris put Champion Floyd Patterson, 23, on the canvas for a four-count in the second, the only round he won. But the expressionless champ did not even blink, came back to floor Harris four times, open up a mass of cuts that required 14 stitches to close. After twelve rounds the challenger was a bloody hulk, could go no farther. Referee Mushy Callahan took...
...Like I said, I had this routine; had it till junior year. Then I took off for Europe and haven't been home since. May never get back. Once you find guts enough to shove on out you don't feel like stopping. It gets in your blood and you know it's good. It's life--not the bottled kind, but real life...