Word: towing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...weeks, but neither of them had expected their scheme would come to fruition, and certainly not in so haphazard a fashion. But there they were nonetheless. Success lay just a hundred yards away if they could only summon the courage to sprint to their Harvard brethren, dog in tow. Slowly jogging onto the grass, they led Handsome Dan in circles, drawing thunderous applause from a host of Elis. Then, without warning, they broke for the visitor’s side, sprinting across the pitch as the Yale fan base recoiled in horror, and the few Harvard students aware of what...
...never forget leaping into his arms when Scott Norwood pushed his game-winning field goal wide—or, better still, at the stadium. Yankees tickets were relatively easy to come by, and we’d often head into the Bronx, gloves in tow, before it was decided by my younger brother and sister that I was the reason the Pinstripes lost every time we saw them play live. Fortunately for me, Dad had been a Giants season ticket holder for years—the waiting list is thousands of names long—so there was hope...
...Barack Obama will travel-with media in tow-to Kenya, his father's African homeland, in August. He will publish a book about his political views, The Audacity of Hope, in October. And then we'll find out just how audacious...
Forget about handbags for a moment and look around. Globe-trotting professionals with heavy laptops in tow are turning to upright rollers to transport their gear. The increasing popularity of those mobile offices has brought high fashion to what used to be a purely functional accessory. Suddenly every brand from Prada to Valentino is rolling luggage down the runway...
...still untested new Delta Force, an élite Army rescue unit, through Iranian airspace to a makeshift desert landing strip in Iran. Then they would be trucked into Tehran, where they would somehow fight their way into the embassy compound and out of it again with the hostages in tow. Instead, a Delta Force chopper collided on the runway with a C-130 transport plane that had 44 Delta troops inside, and eight soldiers died in the fireball. When word of the failed mission reached the White House, notes Bowden, Hamilton Jordan, Carter's chief of staff, "ducked into...