Word: tug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blurs a little, and the feelings of the son, his ex-wife and her new husband fog up. And her last-minute attempt to knit the son's tragedy to the world situation is a piece of synthetic, Freudian chop-logic as far-fetched as saying that a tug on an umbilical cord will ultimately release an atom bomb...
...Doxsee struck Cirrotta in the stomach. He took a step back and sat down on a divan," Tesreau said. "A couple of the guys began to tug at his sweater as if to rip it off him. He got up and apparently ordered the fellows to get out of his room...
...Bermuda-bound airline pilot who emptied his father's ashes in flight. "That's what Dad wanted," the News said he said. "He wanted me to fly him to Bermuda, but I never got the chance. This was the only way . . ." And for a more solid tug at the heartstrings, there was a Harlem mother in tearful collapse after her daughter, little Carmelita Rodriguez, and her playmate had been killed by a coal truck in a "safe" play street...
...death set off a chain reaction, and a furious tug of war between claimants to the $16,500,000 Patterson estate. When the news reached Washington over the A.P., Times-Herald executives moved fast. The seven who had inherited the paper already faced a fight for it; Countess Felicia Gizycka, Mrs. Patterson's daughter, was contesting the will, charging that it had been obtained by "fraud and deceit" as Cissie Patterson was not of "sound mind" when she drafted it. (There was also talk that the seven heirs were already fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal...
Across the river in Manhattan, the Salvation Army also pondered the tug of television. Announced the Salvationists: if they could raise the money, a receiver would be installed in the Bowery Red Shield Club by World Series time, "so that men who are determined not to drink will not be lured into temptation and barrooms by television...