Word: shove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solar radiation satellite, and a smaller drum named Injun, built at Dr. James Van Allen's laboratory at the State University of Iowa. Boosted aloft by a Thor-Able-Star rocket, all three satellites soared into space together. Though the launch was successful, the strong springs, meant to shove the satellites apart to follow separate orbits around the earth, did an incomplete job. Transit went its lonely way, but Greb and Injun stuck together...
However accurate his guess, Hall keeps his eyes focused on the puck, never tries the controversial trick of watching a shooter's eyes for the flicker that tips off the direction of the shot. To shove him self quickly around the cage, Hall pulls on the goal posts or the bar across the top of the net. When a shot actually comes, Hall has no time to think. He picks off the puck with anything handy-his padded chest, a skate, his flat, stubby stick or his huge left mitt. Says he: "Afterwards you have time to figure...
...Madrid not long ago, a little red sports car ran out of gas. Out jumped Jesus and John the Baptist, in flowing robes and beards, to shove the car to a filling station. From there, the two actors (Jeffrey Hunter and Robert Ryan) drove on to a suburban movie set, where a remake of Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings was in production. In Hollywood, meanwhile, Director George Stevens and Poet Carl Sandburg pondered how to "make Christ human" one method already employed: hiring Elizabeth Taylor to play Mary Magdalene) in their adaptation of The Greatest Story Ever...
...over and gettin' fresh and all, and I tell him hey nunodatstuff because I know damn well what he's drivin' at, the bastard, but when I tell him no no never, like I said, he goes to the door an' locks it an' shove's the key in his pocket, and you shoulda seen the way he was rollin' his eyeballs, like in the old time flics, it was terrific...
...ties, shirts, sweaters and socks, as it seems unnecessary to give him something of which he has already taken possession." After other warnings against a family tendency to gamble and speculate in wildcat stocks. Jack Kelly bade a moving farewell to all his loved ones: "Just remember, when I shove off for greener pastures, or whatever it is on the other side of the curtain, that I do it unafraid, and, if you must know, a little...