Push-back Douglas Feith, a high-level Pentagon official, took me aside at a reception and whispered a single noun in my ear: "Push-back".
You could argue that this would work perfectly well on Radio 4, but the combination of site and whisper in your ear pushes it to another level.
Cotto sent him to the canvas with a cuffing left hook behind his ear, pushed him down onto his backside with a right hand, and knocked him down for a third time with what might have been a left hook to the body — it was hard to tell, because few of the punches seemed particularly devastating.
When a black and tan coonhound moves, its swinging ears push scents towards its nostrils, helping it detect and follow prey.
The guitarist, Lage Lund, with long, controlled, flowing solos alternating chords and single-notes — a bit like a Joe Pass with newer ears — pushed mellow tone and formal rigor to the point that you wondered how much of the audience was getting what he did.
But make sure when you're piercing your ear you push very hard, because the less you push, the more you rip your cartilage.
Then take the backing off the post (from the back of the ear) and push the post to the front without pushing it out of the ear.
Even stranger, meeting him in the flesh doesn't make you want to flick his ear lobes, push him over or write cruel words on his back in chalk.
Tuck it behind your ear and push back any loose strands of hair.
This is what is called a rabbit ear fold: push in on the sides so it folds back on itself and makes a triangle, to match the rest of them.
Then Xhumari placed the scalpel two inches above the ear and pushed it hard, down through the skin.
