Word: shove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bbls. would come from increased Western Hemisphere production, most of it from the U.S. Current U.S. production stands at about 7,000,000 bbls. a day-with an available productive capacity of 2,000,000 more. The Venezuelan government last week announced that it stands ready to shove up its oil production by 500,000 bbls. daily (U.S. experts believe, however, that 200,000 would be closer to the feasible mark...
...trick introduced in Minnesota years ago by Harold Stassen. Others voted on the Democratic side because they are angry about the farm situation. No doubt hundreds of Democrats voted for Kefauver because they resented what he so expertly exploited as an attempt by the party "bosses" to shove Stevenson down their throats...
...years when Georgy Malenkov was Stalin's personnel manager, he helped his boss build up a hierarchy of young technocrat-commissars. To get his men into key jobs, Malenkov had to shove out many a stubborn old Bolshevik. At the Commissariat of Heavy Industry, where old-line Commissar Ordzhonikidze gave notice that he would resist purging, Malenkov quietly put in his own security chief. The new man quickly turned over the commissariat's personnel files to the NKVD (central secret police), thus putting them in a position to purge most of Ordzhonikidze's engineers...
...playing a tune on his four side drums and three cymbals (he actually squeezes pitch changes out of one drum by leaning on it with an elbow), while keeping a rhythm as solid as Gibraltar. When the band appeared bored with a number, he seemed to get under and shove-and the band came alive...
...challenger had punched himself arm-weary; he had no more to give. Now Basilio's strength was back, and his hooks were finding the range. In the twelfth, he landed a looping left flush on DeMarco's jaw. The challenger was out on his feet. A merciful shove would have sent him down, but Basilio lowered his sights and fired away at Tony's body. Slowly and gracelessly, Tony slid to the canvas. He was up at the count of eight. Basilio moved in to finish him, but Referee Mel Manning was faster. He brushed Basilio aside...