Word: tug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Made of five-eighths-of-an-inch steel, the Alexbow's 14-ft.-high concave blade is attached to the nose of a tug-pushed barge. It glides under unbroken ice, exerts upward pressure. As the ice breaks, it rides up the slopes of the bow blade and is deposited on solid ice at either side of the barge...
Fighter Through the Mouth. The novels are almost naive in their simplicity. The Beach is an incident involving the tug of war between the sexes in a pointless marriage. Two seemingly compatible people are brought down by a typical Pavese monster: ennui. Not much here, but short and clean; no wasted words. The House on the Hill has bigger aims. Pavese was an anti-Fascist who was put in prison by the Mussolini regime, and then exiled to Calabria. Actually, he failed to do much more than sympathize with those who risked their lives. He was a fighter through...
...grilling the picture was drawn dramatically: we saw the absurdity of cooperating with Shaw students to solve problems for which they held us indirectly responsible. We had no choice but to let the program become, if not entirely, at least partly a racial tug of war. As long as we were "cooperating" to help them, we were being paternalistic; only if we accepted the racial struggle could we come to terms...
...Crimson's entry in the high jump, Soren in the standing high jump. Both won their events with identical 5'1 1/4" leaps. Harvard's performance in some of the other events was less impressive. The Crimson's entrants in the baseball throw, the two-mile bicycle, and the tug-of-war, for example, didn't even place, to their understandable disappointment...
...captain and the rest of the crew in the brig. When the four asked for asylum, the Coast Guard consulted the State Department, then advised the Cuban ship to "approach no closer than the three-mile limit." It dispatched two ships-the cutter Point Brown and a seagoing tug-to investigate...