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Word: shoved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Mikkola, manager Henry Kuharic, a trainer and 22 Varsity and Freshman runners will shove off for Princeton this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the Pilgrim from South Station. Moriarty, who is capable of winning the meet if he is in condition, according to Coach Mikkola, will join the team tomorrow. "They are as ready as they can be," Jaakko said yesterday...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/30/1947 | See Source »

Queen Mary gave a matronly shove to a campaign to export ladies' handiwork (and thus import U.S. dollars) by contributing six flowery chair-covers which she had embroidered herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Resting Comfortably | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...laugh at it and it is true that some very funny cracks go around the Old South when the crowd there is small. However, a somewhat new experience can be had by giving oneself up to the movie's naive strength. Nevsky is a superhuman hero, completely shove the bourgeois jealousies and physical frailties of mere man, and so is, and should be, repugnant to American audiences. Consequently, the picture cannot be taken seriously or realistically, but as a work of art it is simple, strong, and beautifully organized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 8/28/1947 | See Source »

Like slugs from a Tommy gun, the words stuttered out of Chicago's WBBM: "They take this 90-pound pressure hose and shove it up against your spine and . . . keep on giving it to you until you scream bloody murder." A scared kid was describing life at the state training school for boys at St. Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dead End Talk | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...they expect Inside U.S.A. to be the biggest-selling $5 book ever published), and $40,000 to promote it, Gunther's book is the event of the year. It is unlikely to outlast the year. Like a large proportion of bestsellers, this is journalism between boards. It will shove neither Bryce's American Commonwealth nor the WPA State Guides off the shelf; it is neither as penetrating as the one, nor as useful as the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gunther's America | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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