Word: tug-of-war
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Last week's $166 million bond-signing marathon, to finance the first 631,000-kw. unit at Priest Rapids, climaxed a four-year tug-of-war over the quiet Columbia River valley. In 1950 Congress authorized 100% federal financing, for Priest Rapids, as recommended by the Army Corps of Engineers. But in 1952 P.U.D. Manager Glenn Smothers, Attorney Nat Washington Jr. and fellow Grant County inhabitants, who were convinced that the power project could and should be locally financed, battled public-power advocates in Congress to win legislation withdrawing Priest Rapids from the federal projects list. In rapid succession...
...foot octopuses. Once Burford was manning the airline on board ship when another diver in the water below rashly tried to spear an octopus. A hairy tentacle shot out, and for three hours the diver (Scotty Evans by name) was caught 70 feet down in an inhuman tug-of-war between the octopus, which tried to drag him down, and Burford, who tried to haul him up. Finally, at the risk of splitting Evans in two, Burford started the boat to pull Evans loose. Then "the ugly, pear-shaped body of a giant octopus [appeared]. He was perched atop...
...existence and that of a monk. The graduate school versus college question will, of course, be settled in top-level conferences in the Ivy League. The "creeping asceticism" versus "Charlieism" problem is being discussed somewhat lower in the academic hierarchy, with much of the heat of a genuine tug-of-war. In any event, the sides are now chosen and the battle begun...
...divided into two rival camps yesterday in a convention eve tug-of-war over choosing a successor to the late CLO President Philip Murray...
This situation has produced an economic tug-of-war between the South and New England. One of the chief indications of this, Harris states, is that the last 20 years per capita income in the South has risen two-and-one-quarter times as much in New England and population has increased along with...