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...know the man--he'd just been with us a few weeks. He was working on his S.U. carb on the shoulder of the road near our firetrap the other night when a broad in a cage went off the road, smackin' him and his sled, shovin' 'em a hundred feet down the road. It makes you wonder why these things happen...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Three American Magazines | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...characters in his prizewinning, best-selling first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, see life in terms of We and They. We are the little blokes what are shoved around; They are the bloody bastards what does the shovin'-an' the 'ell with 'em. In his new novel, Sillitoe broadens and deepens his anger to include Their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatomy of a Radical | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...angel shovin' at the chariot wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Egypt Land | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...duty: For Hagg, none other . . . sources near the new muster-master intimate he will be shovin' off for the mine sweeping racket again . . . Understand, that's purely tentative, old man . . . Another possible change in the regimental setup, they say, would send O'Connor to Fisher's Island on probationary status . . . Sounds fantastic, of course, but it's fannin' the breeze anyway . . . I didn't believe it myself . . . of course, though you can ask some of the guys in the first platoon; they started it . . . And, confidentially, I think that's a lot of bull about O'Connor slapping Hansen...

Author: By Ensign GUY Osborn, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 1/18/1944 | See Source »

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