In this, his most Chekhovian of pieces, Sondheim shoves our own mortality down our throats.

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The victory shoves Notts back up to second behind Group A leaders Worcestershire.

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New Jersey's Adam Henrique, who scored the series winner last year, exchanged shoves with Tomas Fleischmann before order was restored.

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But they smile agreeably until a publicist drags them across the room to a video crew, where a reporter shoves a microphone in their faces.

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They exchanged shoves, but the referees decided not to eject them.

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Roger shoves it out of the way and pulls over another.

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Caroline shoves her hands in her pockets and swings one leg.

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Flooring the throttle quickens the pulse and shoves you firmly into the seat, as the car eagerly accelerates from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 5.2 seconds.

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That shoves the ever-spreading Gulf spill firmly out of what we know about traditional tort law and into the strange world of mass torts like asbestos, fen-phen and Vioxx.

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But who can be surprised that blacks and whites each tend to gravitate toward the measure that is most forgiving of their individual groups, that shoves the onus for change off on the other?

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