Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardest-hitting of all his speeches was a talk in Minneapolis before the traditionally pro-Democratic National Farmers Union. Departing from his text, he spent 20 minutes defending his position both against the "get-it-over-with-quickly" advocates and those who would "tuck our tail and violate our commitments"-but principally the latter. "Most of these people don't say, 'Cut and run,'" he declared. "They don't say 'Pull out.' They say that they want to do less than we are doing. But we are not doing enough...
Colleagues say that it was a great comfort to know that Professor Owen was here; students remember his constant efforts to build their self-confidence. His own words on the once-new House system gives a better glimpse of his nature: "One could almost imagine tutors being assigned to tuck the boys in at ten o'clock. (In a Master's weaker moments he sometimes regrets that this spectre never materialized...
...place and can tilt itself some 30° fore and aft and 10° sideways-useful for settling gently on an underwater slope. Deep Quest's two manipulator arms can each grasp as much as 500 Ibs. of material at a time off the ocean floor and tuck it into two squirrel-cheek spaces on either side of the craft...
...really necessary to make such a mockery of the Harewood-Tuck-well marriage [Aug. 11]? I found your treatment to be crude, distasteful and juvenile. If your aim was lightheartedness, you missed the mark, I fear. In my opinion the write-up very definitely smacks of lightheadedness...
That accounts for Bus's discomfiture the day when he was 15 and a lass named Ethel crewed for him in a nip-and-tuck race. "The finish was so close I couldn't tell who had won," Bus remembers. "The other fellow called over to the committee boat to find out the results, but I couldn't hear what they told him. So I yelled 'Nice race!' And when he answered Thank you,' I assumed he had won. Next thing I knew, Ethel was standing up, shaking her fist at the committee boat...