Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guys are like the real writers. You take a blank page and impose a structure on something. I know I can't do that because I was an English major--I've written papers for years and I'm just not good at it. It drives me nuts--I pull my hair out in front of the computer watching the cursor blink...
...stew is incomplete: Let's pull that pot right over the stove again and add another ingredient. Actually, just a bigger helping of the same--piping hot self-consciousness, now of consummate sequelhood. Result? Scream 2 is a boring, wrecky bundle of nerves so obsessed with one-upping itself and zipping loop-de-loops round the audience's brain that no one cares after a while...
Ocon's enthusiasm continued well into her sophomore year. She was playing rugby, was excited about her social studies tutorial and was adjusting to life in Eliot House. But around the middle of October Ocon found herself missing classes, too tired to pull herself...
...seemed like the logical next step was to pull people together from different neighborhoods," Pitkin said. "These are all cross-cutting issues--no neighborhood can address any of those issues...
Policy success is always dependent on the capacity to compete in the political arena. Even when the public is sympathetic, little is accomplished without a political strategy and the resources to pull it off. For instance, most of the positions promoted by environmental organizations are widely accepted by a concerned public. High standards for protecting water and air are consistently popular issues and most people now think we need to do more about greenhouse gases that are causing global warming. Yet, it is common to find experienced but ineffective environmental activists who want to stay as far away as possible...