You remember the iconic image of the Vietnam War: pushing those helicopters off the aircraft carrier.
Imagine, say, some disaster or civil war pushing a few million Mexicans northwards.
Rebel fighters are claiming gains in the war, pushing aggressively toward government strongholds near Damascus, the capital, and in the central Syrian city of Hama.
A child's death, though, tumbles through the story of the war, pushing it in different directions, with nights of increasingly troubled sleeps.
His grandfather shuttled between ghettos and concentration camps, surviving somehow, finding a displaced sister after the war, pushing her from a hospital in a wheelbarrow after her lower left leg was amputated because of frostbite.
For all his controversies, his stature is well beyond merely senatorial; during the years of Reagan and Bush, he was a kind of anti-President in the Senate, opposing the Gulf War, pushing abortion rights, often standing alone in his battles for the liberal cause.
