Word: shoved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheel, that he was even starting to work on an Eisenhower campaign fund. Then, on the day before New Year's, while General Ike was vacationing in Florida with his wife, Cissie Patterson's Washington Times Herald-which likes a sensation-gave the wagon a hefty shove...
...before RFC invested, it intended to shove Hughes clear out of the T.W.A. cockpit. The shoving would probably be done by CAB, which had given Hughes special permission to buy control of T.W.A. in the first place. Last week CAB admitted that it was "reviewing" the per mission. This sounded as if CAB were going to give Hughes a choice of putting the stock in a trust, or selling it outright...
Piles for Power. The scientists who dominate the raw and regimented city are not relying on missionaries alone. They are giving the Atomic Age a mighty shove by designing a power-producing pile, the most promising peacetime application of nucleonics...
...business. The Quero Bank is the mainstay of their fresh fish industry. It is close enough to shore (just over 200 miles) for them to chug out, ice down a load of cod, haddock and halibut, and get back in five to six days. If foreign trawlers continued to shove them off Quero, Canadians would have to go twice as far, to the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, for less profitable salt...
...comedy juggler and a parrot that has been dragged through a hedge backwards"), G. D'Arcy ("Stilton") Cheesewright ("a bloke of furtive aspect"), and Lady Florence Craye ("one of those intellectual girls . . . who are unable to see a male soul without wanting to get behind it and shove"). The plot is an intricate counterpoint of love-at-first-sight, financial skullduggery in shipping circles, and Berty's appearance at a ball, disguised as Sindbad the Sailor...