Word: shoved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dogged Attempt. In Chicago, Mrs. Louise Schoeffler filed suit for separate maintenance, complained that Husband Otto had "attempted to push and shove a small puppy dog down [her] throat...
Getting specific, he said that Republicans would shove out incumbent Democrats in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Maryland, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Missouri, Wyoming and Montana (which would mean unhorsing such tough, old Democratic mules as Burt Wheeler, Joe O'Mahoney, Dave Walsh...
...Security Council convened this week at Hunter College in The Bronx. A woman architect even thought she could improve the arrangement of the azaleas, magnolias and dogwoods stacked against the east wall of the conference chamber. "It looks like a Third Avenue wedding," she cried, and began to shove the pots around...
...Firm Shove. As a declaration of policy, Jimmy Byrnes's pronouncement belonged in diplomatic history. This week, around the world, foreign offices studied it. Critics also studied it, knowing that it had to be read in the light of its circumstances...
Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM, which is loudly "against people who push other people around," is itself probably journalism's No. 1 pusher-arounder. Its Editor Ralph McAllister Ingersoll last week directed a hearty shove at one of his own columnists, Fiorello LaGuardia. Wrote Ingersoll...