Word: shoved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capt. Malcolm Campbell, British racing driver, ordered his mechanics to give the fishtailed, monster-snouted Bluebird a shove. Slipping into first gear he pointed her up Daytona Beach toward the judges' stand. A white mist hung over the course and the sand was wet. When he was going 80 m.p.h. he shifted the Napier motor to second speed. At 125 m.p.h. he changed to high. The motor settled into a rising drone like the hum of an enormous bee. At the end of the ten-mile course, without stopping for the usual tire change and mechanical adjustment, he turned...
...went Mrs. Hoover to break a champagne bottle of water collected from the seven seas over the prow of a new Dollar liner, to declare: "I name thee President Hoover." Herbert Hoover III in the launching stand, shouted with excited glee, gave his grandmother's arm an impulsive shove. Declared R. Stanley Dollar: "Such is our answer to the rumor of a business depression...
...game of shifting committee places for Republican Senators threatened to become rougher than child's play. Puss La Follette had the solid support of the G. O. Progressives. Regular Republican Senators were ready to shove Puss Goff from one corner to the other at any hazard. Democrats were spoiling to join the scramble on the Senate floor. In the meantime all other committee assignments were held in abeyance...