Word: pluckings
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...zanne's Cardplayers, but the image mutated into still life, leaving the drinkers' legs fossilized, as it were, in the sloping table legs. The great brown half-moon of the tabletop, the bread loaves and fruit and napkin have a plastic intensity that makes one feel ready to pluck them away...
...tragedy?the inability of the U.S. to extricate 53 American hostages held by Iranian militants and the unstable, faction-torn government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. 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. It ended in the desert staging site, some 250 miles short of its target in the capital city. And for the world's most technologically sophisticated nation, the reason for aborting the rescue effort...
...second puzzling question posed by the mission was why the rescue force did not push on to Tehran despite the loss of three helicopters. That still left five out of the original force of eight, and the Pentagon felt that it needed only four to pluck the hostages out of the embassy. But the planners feared they might lose two or more helicopters during the rescue attempt and dip below the minimum. Why not start out with more than eight choppers? The more aircraft in the air, the Pentagon argues, the higher the risk of their being spotted...
...push Sears back to basics, Chairman Edward Telling reached beneath the top layer of senior management to pluck Brennan from the regional office in Atlanta, where he ran 150 Southern stores. The new chief executive officer is a third-generation Sears man. His grandfather started as a Sears plumbing and heating supply buyer in 1898, and his father was a slacks buyer in the 1940s. Brennan began his company career at 22, as a salesman in the Madison, Wis., store. Then he hopscotched to Sears outlets around the company and up through the organization. Brennan, who still wears Sears suits...
Dressed in Afghan clothes and with an eleven-day growth of beard covering his $8 million face, he looked a little like a young extra in a Dannon yogurt commercial. But with pluck, luck and a crew of four, Dan Rather risked not only his life but the ulcers of CBS executives to bring back some of the first detailed film accounts of the fighting between Afghan rebels and Soviet soldiers for a 27-minute segment of 60 Minutes. Rather's whispered report from a darkened mountain ledge sounded like a cross between one of Edward R. Murrow...