Word: tug-of-war
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...unambiguous joy: three American prisoners of war returning to their families after long months of imprisonment in North Viet Nam. Instead, the route home last week assumed the quality of an international morality play, an occasionally bitter and tearful business that caught the three pilots in a propaganda tug-of-war involving the North Vietnamese, the Pentagon and the American peace movement. All three sides were using the flyers as pawns in a larger drama of image and diplomacy...
...past week, groups of students from the "poor ratio" Houses have been playing tug-of-war with students from the "good ratio" Houses to pull women into their Houses. Both sides have circulated petitions this week supporting their positions...
...trying to cull support for his encounter with the hospital director, the director is going frantic trying to stave off the demonstrators. Meanwhile patients are mislaid, the bookkeeper harasses a dying man to get his Blue Shield number, and Scott and Rigg are carrying on their own private tug-of-war over whether to stay or go to Mexico, she dressed in a nurse's uniform because her blouse had been ripped...
placidity: people occasionally danced, played tug-of-war, and flew kites. In addition, the ever present Hare Krishnas mingled through the crowd, dancing and singing. Marshalls roamed the area with garbage bags, keeping the area clean...
...they traced their historic origins. Like many of the verses in the Opies' now-classic volumes on the origins of nursery rhymes (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955), many of today's games are centuries old. Blindman's buff, ducks and drakes, hide and seek, and tug-of-war were enjoyed by children in Plato's Greece. Ancient Egypt knew the finger-flashing game of paper-scissors-stone, still played around the world-and not only by youngsters. The universality and durability of children's games, the authors say, reveal the traditionalist in every child...