Word: shoved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout all the demonstrations, Dr. Moreno stood at the edge of the stage ready to slap and shove his actors into giving a more lively performance. Sometimes he functioned as a kind of jester, making pertinent wisecracks about the going-on. At other times, he appeared to be meditating, with chin resting on chest, one hand across his back and the other across his heart...
...Rocky, had made his heavier foe look ridiculous for most of the first nine rounds. Some of Rocky's haymakers missed by feet, not inches. In the second round, he missed a right so awkwardly that he landed on the seat of his pants-with a slight shove from Fusari. For playing the role of punching bag, and almost upsetting the dope, talented, clean-living Charlie Fusari collected $24,437 (compared to Rocky's $42,765) and a chance at the welterweight crown...
...punch anybody. I did not jump or step on Fred Boysen ... If I had done any of those things ... I would have walked right up to Horace Stoneham and [resigned] . . . because I know that I would be through with 'baseball." Leo said he had merely given a shove to somebody who came up behind him and who, he thought, was trying to grab...
Professor Hooton suggested the Society establish a central record bureau to place anthropological data forms in the hands of every member. He also got in a plug for one family of apes he has always respected--the chimp. "They're the closest to man--shove the chimpanzee in almost any situation among men and he wouldn't stick out--except perhaps favorably...
What can save a civilization from perishing? Does the Christian Gospel of Redemption apply to nations as well as individuals? Here Niebuhr wades into a cut & thrust theological controversy, armed with a two-edged blade of paradox. Human society, he concedes, is maintained by push-and-shove competition and balance of power; the very instruments of social justice tend automatically to become unjust. But, he says, such teachers as Martin Luther are in error, when they "exclude the possibility of redemption and a new life in man's social existence, and confine redemption to individual life." The structures...