Word: shoving
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Shortly after the nude sprint around the Yard began, Bahadu says, “I felt a shove behind me.” His friends had pushed him to the head of the pack and then dropped behind, leaving young Bahadu at the mercy of the spectators. “I was by myself,” he says. “All by myself. And the worst part was that I could hear, 50 yards down the line: ‘There’s Shaka! Shaka’s coming!’” He sighs...
...Before coming here, Harvard was my number one choice,” Nwokocha said. “I just wanted to take this game and just shove it [in their faces...
Waiting in the interminable noon Annenberg line, we are constantly accosted by upperclass students urging us to try out for another a cappella group or comp another student publication. In front of the Science Center, flyer-laden activists shove slips of yellow paper in our faces, exhorting us to join another cause. The unending deluge of paper wrangles my nerves. So does the exorbitant amounts of paper wasted in hand bills, and layered on bulletin boards. Stacks of flyers none of us will ever read inevitably accumulate. But we still keep taking them because, if we didn?...
...United States must “shove peace down Israel’s throat,” but the Bush administration is “too busy fishing for money from rich Jewish Republicans, Hertzberg said...
...cool your trend spotters talked about is the cool that MTV and the teen media are trying to shove down the throat of mainstream America. One of your experts surveyed young people in shopping malls to find out what is and isn't cool. Once something is mass-marketed and available in malls everywhere, it has lost its edge. I'm not cool, but I'm practical and not some dunce who follows every latest trend simply because it is the latest trend. MATTHEW CARUSO Valencia Calif...