One employee of an apartment building pushed a trolley of sandbags across the road to try to reinforce the defences.
And when a building pushes the design conventions of the day, it will invariably be compared to a giant something or other.
At one point, a dozen people trapped behind security bars on the second floor of a building pushed their arms through broken windows and screamed to be rescued.
A super-tall building pushes the limits of the force balance method due to difficulties in maintaining sufficient model stiffness and in accounting for the influence of higher modes of vibration.
Only in January 1990, as the smoke of burning files rose from the Stasi headquarters on the Normannenstrasse, did a vast crowd assemble outside the building, push past the terrified guards and sack the place from roof to cellar.
There are residential towers on the northern border, along 42nd Street; new hotels and apartment buildings pushing westward from Eighth Avenue; and new residential towers marching northward along the High Line, the elevated park in Chelsea.
Coconut Grove was the first black settlement in Southern Florida, populated mostly by Bahamian immigrants, until, after the Second World War, homes were torn down and replaced with pricey apartment buildings, pushing working-class families farther west.
The project's scientists have seen the tenacious, gangly, junkyard dog of a tree leaning out of second-story windows of abandoned buildings, pushing its leaves up through subway grates from underground.
