Word: tug-of-war
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...vote in the General Assembly. Though Haiti promptly paid its tardy $31,979 and Bolivia and Paraguay coughed up some $30,000 each after U Thant's blacklisting last week, the other 13 stand to lose their votes, and the issue has turned into a major tug-of-war between the U.S. and Russia, which owes the most: some $63 million...
Members of the often-parochial RGA Legislature staged a tug-of-war yesterday over whether RGA should take stands on issues outside the happy Radcliffe community...
...four interrelated scenes preceded by "phases," as Mlle. Lathrop describes them. Each phase is an interlude in which Michael Puorro, who is a baby as the mime opens, grows older. Puorro is especially convincing as he discovers his fingers and hands and learns to walk. His symbolic tug-of-war to hold onto life--pulling on an imaginary rope with Norris Eisenberg on the other end--is graceful and agonizing...
...discusses the tug-of-war between teaching and research, the need of many professors to augment their income through outside jobs, and the magnetic hold of the profession on its practitioners. Its main appeal, Eble feels, is that "it deals with human beings at their richest point: with girls who bounce instead of sag, with boys between the cloddishness of fifteen and the bullishness of twenty-five." And he makes some prophecies about the effect of the increased demand for teachers in the coming decade...
Family life at the Harringtons' is one long parental tug-of-war in which the children serve as the rope. The daughter (Annette Gorman), a sunny child just turning into her teens, seems able to stand the strain. But the son (Richard Beymer), an unstable boy in his first year at Harvard, starts to come apart as mother tries to get him away from father, and father tries to get him away from Harvard and into the furniture business...