Word: shove
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is especially worth considering in the weird realm of regularly scheduled prime-time commercial television, that bargain basement of American culture, where the very nature of the environment usually precludes great notions and the merely good ones are rare. Instead, the insipid and the tasteless constantly push and shove, tug and haul, rudely jockeying for position in the ratings that mean the difference between survival and death for programs. Financially a couple of points make the difference between profits that are merely terrific for the network with a bunch of flops or simply stupefying for the one with...
...hard to get at the "President," he said, "because if you shove a microphone in his face you will probably get wrestled to the ground by the Secret Service. Carter, on the other hand, felt compelled to talk to the press in order to avoid being accused of dodging questions...
...because they are assembled from sheet steel and do not dislodge great lumps of space, they also have a light, affable air to them. The larger, recent mobiles are rather less exhilarating, at least when hung in a museum: the response to air has gone, and it takes a shove, not a zephyr, to overcome their inertia...
...only rail link to the ocean--because of weakened internal support in the face of rioting and strikes. Pogrund perceives that just the opposite is true. The new turmoil has strengthened Vorster's hand, he says, and this revived support among the frightened white minority freed Vorster to shove Smith...
THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR has made Dapper the Joey Gallo of the City Council. Though he has no allies, O'Neil refuses to make deals or cooperate with the Mayor. "White can shove that patronage up his ass," he says bluntly. While Kerrigan and Council President Hicks have carefully built up their patronage machines and index card files, Dapper performs favors without collecting IOU's. When many Councilors spent over $40,000 in their re-election campaigns, Dapper limited his budget to $1800 and hired no employees. The media has an unofficial black-out on his many charges...