Word: shoving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleased with these tactics, the Rwandan government wanted to displace Fossey and market her research center as a tourist attraction. She dug in. To a journalist planning a visit in 1985 she wrote, "If push comes to shove, I am prepared to fight for my claim." Two days after Christmas, Fossey was hacked to death in her bed. Suspects ranged from vengeful poachers to an American researcher who had proclaimed his innocence and fled the country before a Rwandan court found him guilty in absentia. The judgment is questionable. Harold Hayes does not offer conclusive evidence about who committed...
...even greater waves of people at the mouth of a 550-meter-long tunnel dug through a mountain to ease the pietists' journey. The rain of bodies brought foot traffic to a halt, but at the tunnel's opposite end other hajjis, unaware of the human blockade, continued to shove forward. Soon the passageway was jammed with some 50,000 people, many times more than its capacity. Next, according to survivors, for reasons still unexplained, the lights in the tunnel went out and the ventilation system failed -- on a day when the temperature outside was a searing 44 degrees...
...concerned about criminals?" Koch asked at a Law School forum. "I'd shove them in there, 60 in one square foot," he said, responding to complaints about prison overcrowding...
...unfortunately, the only voice that seems to get acted upon at Harvard is the voice of the author's self-named "PW." Plotz's charge of "PC totalitarianism" is a blatant misrepresentation of the dominant traditionalism that exudes out of every brick at Harvard. When push comes to shove, Harvard protects its own--and "its own" is white, upper middle-class, heterosexual and male...
...wants you to entertain clients. But no problem! That's why you -- and millions of other Americans -- bought the videocassette recorder with the one-month, eight- program calendar timer and standby one-touch record. Once you have mastered the owner's manual, a lifetime task for some, you just shove in a tape and press a few dozen buttons. What could go wrong...