Word: shoved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That left the airplane. Next week ten well-heeled vacationists will climb into a Pan American Airways DC-3, shove off on the first postwar escorted air cruise, which will take them through 15 of the 20 Latin American countries. Cost...
...list of logs that needed a shove was impressive. On the biggest, control of the atom, London heard that the talks were going well. But no statesman had quite faced the fact that atomic control presupposes that international inspection will prove both technically and politically possible. The Russian character and the semi-conspiratorial background of the Soviet regime were against easy acceptance of any inspection scheme. There was a good chance that a plan of agreement would be drafted in Moscow, but the odds on real atomic control in 1946 stayed remote...
...Chatham, Ont., Butcher James Edmonson exhorted his colleagues: "Let's shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...
...first ten days were the hardest. They wouldn't let anybody touch me to help me. Every day they blindfolded me and threw me in a truck to take me into town, then questioned me all day. They would make me walk on my bad leg, and shove me with a rifle butt to make sure I did. After ten days I was getting pretty ripe-I don't know how they stood the smell. Finally they let a doctor wash...
Screaming women and hoarsely shouting men scuttled along the decks, leaped from the rails or slid down ropes into the water. Mothers holding babies made frantic one-armed, flesh-burning descents down the dangling cables. A man grabbed a rope and poised to shove off, let go when two women leaped on his back. The three plunged into the river together. Up to the Hamonic rushed a flotilla of motorboats, rowboats and canoes, led by U.S. Coast Guard craft. The boatmen snatched up those who could not swim ashore...