Word: tug-of-war
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Lisa Belkin, who has collected her New York Times columns on balancing work and family into Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom (Simon & Schuster), says "the emotional and economic tug-of-war" that modern mothers endure "is the central story of our generation." And the women who are enduring it seem compelled to tell their stories without leaving out the gory bits. In The Bitch in the House (Morrow), a forthcoming collection of women's tales of love, work and other burdens edited by Cathi Hanauer, the seven essays devoted to motherhood are assembled under the subtitle "Mommy...
...first phase of the fight lasted an hour. It was followed by a bizarre tug-of-war in which the Palestinians tried to drag three Israeli bodies out of the area. They were stopped by an Israeli rescue force. One of the rescuers, Lieut. Eyal Yoel, and another soldier rushed into a house overlooking the ambush to provide covering fire. But as Yoel entered a room, he hit a trip wire. The explosion knocked him unconscious and set him afire. He died before his comrades could reach him. When the shooting finally stopped, 13 Israelis lay dead, including four members...
...influence and who sometimes win only when the hard-line position fails. The two rival teams put their differences aside after Sept. 11. The Pentagon had a strange new war on its hands, and Powell had a multinational coalition against al-Qaeda to plant and nurture. But as the ground war cooled, the hard-liners got busy again. They turned their attention to Iraq, and the back-room tug-of-war began all over again. In January, while Powell was out of the country on a diplomatic mission, Cheney and Rumsfeld teamed up to persuade Bush to cut all ties...
What followed involved spitting mouthfuls of water, snarling dog fights over cigars, a tug-of-war match over Morrison’s salmon-colored guitar, Cex’s awkward and unskilled attempts to play said guitar after winning the battle for it and a good deal of confused and amused looks from members of the audience. Interspersed throughout were shouted, yet barely audible, familiar rap lyrics made all the more hilarious by the on-stage goofing While Cex growled and snarled, Morrison maintained a babyish and docile facial expression reminiscent of a young Sarah Jessica Parker as Annie singing...
...sentiment to bring tugging back to the Games. That would be welcome news in bored and poor Japan, where 3,000 teams are on the pull. None yanks harder than a band of Japanese middle-aged women called the Oita Cosmo Ladies. Since starting out in 1986 as a hobby for the wives of a landscape gardening company's employees, the Ladies have outpulled almost everyone fool enough to touch the other end of their rope, from professional wrestlers to martial-arts experts. Despite less-than-Amazonian builds, the Ladies won the world tug-of-war championship in 1999. Their...