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Word: shoving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poems and stories are too much alike. Almost all of them share the same cold-blooded, Absurdist detachment. The magazine needs some comedy, some non-In point of view, as much as it needs more polished and more comprehensible artists. In coming issues the Advocate should shove the mutant crab off its cover...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: The Advocate | 12/2/1965 | See Source »

...asked Pan American to act as carrier, and Castro workmen were enlarging and improving the Varadero airport. Camarioca, said Castro, was being closed to all exile boats from Florida. Those boats already in port -and there were more than 100 of them-were to load up and shove off immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: And Now by Air | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...write. "The best incentive for drafting a readable report," it said, "is to assume that your readers are not terribly interested in what you have to say, and that you have to tell your story in such a way that they won't be inclined to shove it aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE STATE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...Credits. Still, with the long Labor Day weekend ahead and L.BJ.'s agents all around, the conferees showed no new signs of agreement. The President was not about to give up. "Mr. Rayburn always used to say that there comes a time for every leader when he must shove in his whole stack," mused Lyndon. "Well, I've shoved my whole stack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Whole Stack | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

...kidnap their listeners. Jamming of programs may be tried, just as the Soviets now jam Voice of America broadcasts Another trick that has been suggested is to learn the frequency and code of a satellite's station-keeping system and send it commands that will make it shove itself out of orbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: The Room-Size World | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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