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Word: shoves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thorny Romance. In Cincinnati, seeking a divorce, Geraldine Ann Goerl admitted that her husband had once given her a bouquet of roses but pointed out that he had tried to shove it down her throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

Brotherly Shove. Basically, concludes Dakin Williams, his brother is like one of his own characters: Chance Wayne, who "seeks to recapture his 'sweet bird of youth'-his lost innocence." Adds Dakin: "In a recent conversation, Tennessee confided to me that although he was not certain that any Christian church had as yet discovered God, if it were now necessary for him to make a choice between the various churches, he would choose the Catholic Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: That Sweet Bird | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

Captain Williams' article closes with a brotherly shove, as he remembers a day long years ago when little Tom was playing with his toys in the yard and the heavens lowered with thunderheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: That Sweet Bird | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...threat from sharks," admits Cousteau, "but it is very, very small. The last thing for a diver to do is to flee. The good diver stays and faces the shark." Cousteau's men never use knives or guns on sharks because of the danger of provoking attack, shove away intruders with clubs made of broomsticks cut in half. Cousteau himself once routed a shark by socking it on the snout with his camera. But Cousteau readily concedes that sharks can be unpredictable; one once nipped Art Pinder's stern black and blue. The safest place when sharks prowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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