Word: shove
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farmers flocked to the capitol in St. Paul last week to demand a moratorium on construction of the line. Others have taken more forceful action. When power-company survey crews invade their fields, farmers harass them with onrushing snowmobiles. They block construction machinery with pickup trucks and boulders. They shove welding rods into the radiators of the power companies' tractors, sprinkle sand and gravel into gas tanks. Four masked men on horseback menaced one work crew; up to 100 chanting protestors have played "ring-around-the-tripod" to heckle surveyors. Math Woida, a Sauk Centre farmer, became a local...
...rose in 1977, and 92 million Americans are now working, up from 86 million in November 1974. The hottest country-and-western hit is Johnny Paycheck's good-natured, blue-collar cry for the freedom to find work that satisfies as well as sustains: Take This Job and Shove...
...saddle again..." he pirouettes madly across the room to turn it off--that scene alone may be worth the price of admission. Similarly, a scene in which he sits in the bathroom taping his book is hilarious. Constantly interrupted, he finally tells an offending party to "shit and shove it under the door," Cary Grant with a fine measure of '70s Bogart...
Given the deep-seated hostility on all sides, the Administration has done surprisingly well so far at narrowing the initial differences between Israelis and Arabs so that they are seriously considering sitting down together at Geneva. The result of the Administration's decision to move from push to shove in the Middle East could easily have been different: a violent shouting match with the parties involved that would dash the prospects for negotiations and saddle the Administration with a highly visible foreign policy failure that it can ill afford...
...will be a slow, carefully monitored journey. First, 6 million cu. ft. of nitrogen will be blown through the pipeline to purge air from the system, reducing the threat of oil-vapor explosions. Next, a cylindrical plug, called a "pig," will be shoved into the line. Finally, after a signal from Valdez, workmen will open valves at Prudhoe, allowing long-capped crude to fill the line behind the pig. The moving oil will push the pig through the 48-in.-diameter steel pipe at 1 m.p.h. As it goes, the cylinder will shove out of the pipe any refuse that...