Word: shoved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Struggling to keep something of its wartime power, the Army, backed by President Truman, is collecting its forces to shove universal training through Congress before '48 elections make it impractical for the legislators to press the point. When the bill went before Congress last year, it aroused violent opposition, chiefly from educators and clergymen, and the President, forced to compromise, appointed a committee of distinguished civilians to study UMT and make recommendations. Now, as the committee prepares to report, advocates of the measure hope at least to squeeze it through the House before the July recess...
...took the sleeper for Blackpool, his first stop in a tour of Lancashire and England's industrial Midlands. He made for Freckleton, where 61 people were killed in 1944 when a U.S. bomber crashed on the village. He chatted with the mothers of the dead children, helped shove toddlers down the playground slides, visited the communal graveyard...
...grunted the Russian, wrinkling his nose. "Nimm mit," and he gave the bewildered prisoner a gentle shove toward the sidewalk...
...female clerk of Georgia's Supreme Court stepped out into the mob of newsmen and politicos milling in a dark hallway of the State Capitol. Trembling with excitement, she squeaked: "No shoving, please." When the mob shoved anyway, a man shouted anxiously: "Don't shove. It's 5-to-2 for Thompson...
There was plenty of action in the smaller rings. The price of hogs went up to an alltime high of $30 a hundredweight, almost double the price of five months ago. Many another commodity edged up enough to shove Dun & Bradstreet's weekly index of wholesale food prices to a record high. Some metals rose too. Lead went up 1? to a new high of 14? a lb.; copper worth only 14 3/8? under OPA ceiling rose to 21? a Ib. Silver, which had sagged to 70? a Ib. in February, now somersaulted...