Word: plucking
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Popov had as much luck as pluck that day: the force of the impact knocked out all his dental fillings but caused no serious injuries. So he got the chance to pursue his scheme to develop parachutes for gliders and small planes. Popov quickly discovered that conventional chutes would not work because most accidents happen so close to the ground that the canopies do not have enough time to inflate. To get around that problem, Popov devised a parachute that could be completely deployed by a tiny rocket in a matter of seconds. Since then, the company he founded...
...leaders do. Popular sentiment for an accommodation between Israel and the Arabs has been pushing up through the Middle East soil for six or seven years, ripening but not ready. Who's to say, exactly, what made an avowed terrorist and a gruff, tough soldier reckon the time to pluck it had come? Rabin, hero of the Six-Day War, stern enforcer of the occupation, talked about territorial compromise but seemed an unlikely figure to break long-standing taboos. As Defense Minister during the early days of the intifadeh, he vowed to defeat it with "force, might and beatings...
Mother and Father can take down the pictures and store the rocking horse in the attic, pluck the magnetic alphabet off the refrigerator door. Maybe they can find some other use for the room with the yellow wallpaper. Or they could close it up and seal it like a tomb so they can go about their grieving for the merry little girl they love and are about to lose...
...Michael J. Fox in Life with Mikey: "I'm a show-biz agent, down on his pluck. I hope to make my fortune, and remake my life, with the help of a brash urchin who could be someone's beautiful daughter...
...interview every single [student] candidate myself," says Jellis. "And then I pluck probably ten of the best...