Word: shove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruggedness was particularly useful to this season's sextet, which was other wise to small that just about any other team in the East could shove it around. He spent 70 minutes in the penalty box, almost twice as long as anyone else on the team, but he intimidated many opposing forwards in the process...
...achieving racial integration and academic innovation in Pittsburgh had been brilliant. But Pittsburgh, with its 75,000 students and its tight, cooperative civic-power structure, is not New York, with its 1,060,000 students and its vast, indifferent establishment. Last week the mild-mannered Gross got a rude shove...
...Overmastering Lust. Yet Julian's real mistress is the great river. As soon as he can shove politics aside, he presses on to the Concession territory itself; this voyage of discovery, upriver for more than a thousand miles by steamship and motor launch, is the central theme of the book. Cora Almeida is put aboard by her husband to seduce Julian away from his loyalty to the Concession. The temptation is painful; in bracing contrast to most fiction today, it is overmastered by youthful lust for adventure and exploration...
...power blocking that once opened holes for the single wing's runners has also suffered. Defensive line-men are now bigger and faster than ever before, and many of them are specialists at their positions, making them hard to shove out of the way with brute force alone...
...overemotional Italians. "The Tuscans aren't tenors. They speak: they don't sing. They don't wash out their throats with beautiful Italian phrases." The whole history of Tuscany, thinks Malaparte, can be expressed in a common Tuscan curse: "To hell with all of you, go shove...