Word: plucking
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...fury dramatized the dimensions of a new American tragedy--the inability of the U.S. to extricate 53 American hostages held by Iranian militants. In a startlingly bold but tragic gamble, President Jimmy Carter had ordered a courageous, specially trained team of American military commandos to try to pluck the hostages out of the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in Tehran. The supersecret operation failed dismally...
Practicality aside, that li'l Bug sure is cute. And VW plans to show that if it tugs the heartstrings, it will pluck the purse strings too. With such slogans as "More power and less flower" and "If you sold your soul in the 1980s, here's your chance to buy it back," VW hopes that blending baby-boomer nostalgia with Generation X sophistication will help sell as many as 50,000 Beetles in the next year. "This car is for people who see the world's glass as half full," gushes Jens Neumann, VW managing director for North America...
...loss of someone who was not a hero, a saint or a leader. Reduced to basics, hers was the life of a high-born girl, royally seduced and abandoned, who pleased the observing world by her beauty, gracefulness, kindness and weakness, and by an impressive amount of pluck. Yet when she died, it was as if the heart of everyone dropped in its cage...
...Titanic, was released just one month after the event and starred an actress who had been onboard. There was a Teutonic Titanic, a Nazi-financed epic featuring an imaginary German hero. The 1958 British A Night to Remember is still revered for its balance of newsreel realism and humanist pluck. But diving into crowded waters is James Cameron's M.O. Except for The Terminator and The Abyss, all his films have been sequels or remakes, each grander and pricier than the movies that preceded it. What gargantuan retread can be next--History of the World Part...
...until the harvest, most of the work involves removing excess growth from the vines. Workers remove extra shoots, pluck leaves by hand to let in more sunlight and apply chemicals to the grape blooms to thin the bunches...