Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the racers seem to appreciate the smooth aestheticism of surface. The finest crews exude not exertion but fluidity. All move as one. Sculls catch the water as one. Pull through. Slide. Back. Again. Again. And then gone, under the next bridge...
...surface, he was often on to something important. Although some Americans voted for Reagan out of naked self-interest (people with six-figure incomes, for example) and others voted for him out of right-wing nuttiness or foolish patriotic euphoria, there aren't enough of these people to pull off a 49-state landslide. Reagan's message must have had some broader appeal...
...17th-ranked Crimson (7-3 overall, 3-0 Ivy) fought to a 1-0 lead as it dominated the first half, but the Terriers recovered in the second half to pull...
THAT'S why I wish my activist friends would get the news. Rent control hurts the most vulnerable members of society for the benefit of a few people who get "a good deal" on their rents. It's the classic example of the "pull-up-the-ladder syndrome," as Washington Monthly editor Charles Peters calls psuedo-liberal programs that hurt the folks at the bottom...
Gage, a former investigative reporter for the New York Times, spent years researching events that led to his mother's murder. The investigator was indistinguishable from the avenger. He eventually tracked down Eleni's inquisitor and interviewed him at gunpoint. But Gage did not pull the trigger. "There are times when I wake up at night and want to get back on a plane and kill the son of a bitch," Gage said. A Place for Us overlaps that past and goes on to embrace less heroic lifetimes, mainly the author's and that of his father. Yet each life...