Word: shoves
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...fuck out!" one marine shouted to another, as the tension increased. At that point, a shove, a tossed stone or a shot fired could have provoked a massacre and turned the city violently against the American occupation. But the marines retreated cautiously around the other corner, as the worshipers were held back by their own men. Women peered at the marines from behind cracked open doors and children waved to them and gave them a thumbs...
...associated with the Masters tournament, is a men’s-only club, and Martha Burk, the president of NCWO, doesn’t like that. Last year she sent a letter to Augusta president Hootie Johnson asking him to change the policy, and he basically told her to shove off. Since then, the issue has taken on a life...
...inspirited by a potent cocktail of pent-up rage (raids of gay bars were brutal and routine), overwrought emotions (hours earlier, thousands had wept at the funeral of Judy Garland) and drugs. As a 17-year-old cross-dresser was being led into the paddy wagon and got a shove from a cop, she fought back. "[She] hit the cop and was so stoned, she didn't know what she was doing--or didn't care," one of her friends later told Martin Duberman, author of the history Stonewall...
...instead of being mobbed by joyous teammates after burying the puck in the net, Ruggiero received nothing but Holst’s retaliatory shove...
...main attraction, a 37-meter replica of one of the famed Bamiyan buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, is mysteriously covered by a huge cloth, with only its giant feet poking out. When tourists try to approach the statue, security guards shoo them away. Instead, would-be guides shove pictures of the park's lesser draws under the few visitors' noses?perhaps a tour of a couple of fake, mildewy buddhas or a trip to a viewing pavilion that looks out on nothing much? Asked when the Bamiyan lookalike might be open to the public, one guide says, "Maybe...