Word: shoved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Optimists took heart from the fact that six successive days of 1,000,000-share-plus trading, which meant a lot of profit-taking by those who had bought stocks at their lows, had failed to drive prices down. Whether the market had the strength for a further shove upward was still to be shown. At week's end, with the Dow-Jones industrials up only .83 for the week's 5,710,000-share turnover, Wall Street's crystal ball was still as cloudy as ever. This week it was further clouded by a strike...
Although they knew that nobody would try to shove them aside, the hungry men began taking great care to guard their places in the chow line. They showed a strongly possessive attitude toward their food; at table, some leaned suspiciously over their trays, "protecting" their rations with their arms. The men were "cultured and refined," the researchers reported, but soon they all unashamedly licked their dishes. As they got hungrier & hungrier, food became the chief subject of their conversation and their daydreams. They became fond of poring over cookbooks and hotel menus...
...regardless of whether they're sex-starved or sincerely interested, all rosy-checked Wellesleyites who want to buy the book must produce official permission when they shove their $6.50 across the counter of the Hathaway House Bookshop in Wellesley...
Most of the 2,000 delegates had longer memories than aging Phil Murray. They recalled that last year, when Walter Reuther could best have used a boost from Murray, he got a shove instead. What actually happened in the hectic U.A.W. presidential race of 1946 was that Murray had endorsed bumbling R. J. Thomas, stooge of the union's left-wingers. Reuther had won only by the narrowest of margins, and the left-wingers had captured all the union's other top jobs, plus control of the executive board. Phil Murray had gloated: "Reuther has been contained...
With a week of some of the most enthusiastic practice sessions of the year under their helmets and pads, 35 Yardling footballers shove off for Eliland this morning willing and hoping to cap their grid season with a victory over the Yale Freshmen this afternoon...