Word: oar
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...White House, for example, was exceedingly cruel when it suggested recently that the unemployed were being uncooperative by their failure to buy more goods. Luxury items, to be sure, are selling close to pre-recession levels, but the rich are patriotic and will always pull hard on their oar and do their share...
...these days of high fashion and anti-recession spending, America expects every tasteful consumer to do his bit. Women, too, with their majority holding in the nation's private wealth, must cooperate if these campaigns are to succeed. Radcliffe, unfortunately, is not pulling its oar...
Along Yugoslavia's wild coast of Dalmatia, the test of a man is his ability to pull an oar. In the balmy Adriatic summer the test comes rarely. But in winter, the cold bora wind sweeps down from the mountains, battering the little fishing boats with gusts that reach 120 m.p.h., and the lives of the whole crew depend on their oars...
Ivica Krunic was a fisherman in the village of Bol on the isle of Brae. First as a boy with his brothers, then as a man with his sons, Ivica had pulled his oar with the best in the 25-ft., four-oared boats. But two winters ago, when Ivica was 68, his sons Vicko and Ivo came to him one day with an ultimatum: he must stay home because, unable to pull his weight, he endangered not only his own life but theirs, if the bora struck...
...intense that it simply does not occur to her that a mere gondolier could aspire to be her lover. When the uninformed Venetian finally begins to understand, he swills wine, falls off a quay and is drowned, but not before the reader wishes that he had taken his painted oar to the girl in Liberty silks...