Word: shoving
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...athletes are treated like musicians. The fact that athletes scored significantly lower on every single category used to judge applicants over a ten-year period with the sole exception of athletic rating, and the very existence of that rating, makes it clear that football players are given a hard shove into Harvard that violinists can only dream of receiving...
Aware of Winnie Mandela's erratic behavior in recent years, many South Africans were guessing that the once-divorced Nelson might give his wife the shove following his release from prison. Not so. With Winnie facing trial in February on kidnapping and assault charges, Nelson is now springing to her defense. The government has subjected her to a "great deal of persecution," he says, adding that the press found her guilty before she appears in court. "I was unable to give her protection when I was in prison," he explains. "((But)) I am now here." Should the verdict go against...
Something certainly clicked, since the penalty kick Dartmouth converted minutes later would be all the scoring the aggressive Big Green could muster. But Dartmouth still managed to shove the Crimson scrum all over the field...
Since alumni children are certainly not three times more likely to be qualified than other applicants, these statistics suggest that the fabled "tip" is more like a hard shove...
...petered out, I learn, in the early '70s. A steel- fabricating plant operated there for a few years, then went belly up, and now a toxic-waste cleanup putters along in a clutter of rusted metal. Ellsworth Lake is still where it was when my father and I would shove off at first light in a borrowed rowboat, seats slicked by dew, to fish for perch and crappies with bamboo poles and worms. Now a friendly fellow who is launching a $15,000 bass boat, complete with electronic fish-finder, says the water is a funny color near the dead...