Word: shoved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the copper industry got a good shove in the opposite direction at the hands of the U. S. Government when the Navy Department announced the award of a 750,000-lb. contract at 8½? per Ib., lowest price in 14 months, to Milhauser Trading Corp.(copper brokers), one of the loudest opponents of the code. Domestic fabricators took the cue, dropped prices of all copper products 1? per Ib. Copper for export sank to 7¼? against a top of 7½? the previous day and 8½? the preceding month...
...never walk down there," the experienced bottom-saunterer continued. "I shove myself around on my stomach in ever widening circles--my technique would shame the most adroit pollywog. The clouds of mud I stir up make using a light about as useful as trying to shine it through a thick London fog. You can't see anything and if you're not careful to keep your suit full of air, you will squash up into your helmet...
...Paul V. McNutt, the much-hated autocrat of Indiana, although he had a good, safe, well-paid berth in Texas during the War, did not hesitate to shove aside those who had suffered hell in Flanders Field and grab for himself the fat salary and honors which the real soldiers...
...showed him my notes. He seized them, balled them up in his fist, tossed them on the floor. . . . Next came the preliminary to the 'works.' I may say that this consists in shoving the intended victim around with the open hand until he becomes so irritated that he strikes a police officer. . . . I permitted one hearty shove to seat me in a chair...
...close. To the President the pension and pay restoration was a bigger defeat than either the bonus bill or the St. Lawrence Treaty. It indicated that he might soon have to have Leaders Robinson and Byrns on the carpet for a heart-to-heart if he expected to shove through his domestic legislative program and get Congress out of Washington by May 15. And when scoldings begin honeymoons...