Word: tug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there the resemblance ends. Upstairs, Downstairs reflects a society in which masters and servants are bound to each other by shared and common memories. There is an intimacy, both abrasive and comforting, that precludes abandonment, despair and uncontrollable passions. Soap operas, on the other hand, are folk tales that tug at the soul of a nation of strangers for whom television itself is a bond. Tolstoy thought that unhappy families were unhappy in different ways. But a Madison Avenue philosopher, selling sex and suffering in the afternoon, remarks: "Show me an unhappy home and I'll show you a home...
Inevitably, things got nasty. While crossing the bow of the British tug Euroman, the Icelandic gunboat Thor was rammed and damaged. The British claim it was an accident; the Icelanders believe it was deliberate. In any case, given the North Atlantic's chronic wintertime high winds and rough waters, such naval games of chicken were bound to produce collisions. A fortnight ago the confrontation grew more serious. While seeking shelter from a gale two miles off Iceland's coast, the unarmed British ocean-going tug Lloydsman was fired on by the Thor. Iceland says the Thor fired...
...letters to yourself, dear," he admonished Nora. "They were written for you." Yet because everything Joyce experienced found its way some how into his fiction, the exposure of his raw sexual fantasies is not the simple invasion of privacy it might seem. Joyce's life was a tug of war between schizoid contradictions. He fled Dublin but never wrote about anything else. He renounced Catholicism, then cast himself as a higher priest who would transform the bread of common life into art. As these newly released letters show, the aloof classicist also struggled with the dark sensualist...
...husband had no consistent policy. Perera later apologized for giving offense, but Mrs. Bandaranaike replied that her party would not tolerate "throat cutting hi the guise of unity" and forced the Trotskyites out of the government. Others believe the firing of Perera was the result of a tug of war within the ruling clan. In this reading, Mrs. Bandaranaike used Perera's remark as an excuse to move away from the radical left-represented by her daughter Sunethra, who is coordinating secretary to the Prime Minister, her husband Kumar and sister Chandrika-and in the direction of her more...
Judging from past sessions, nobody expected the meeting in Vienna last week of the ministers of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to be a quiet affair. But few foresaw what by week's end had become a dramatic and bitter tug of war between the cartel's two major producing nations, Saudi Arabia and Iran. After four days of fierce wrangling, the members compromised Saturday on a hike in world oil prices of only 10%, or about $1.05 per bbl., well below the 35% or so that had been bruited about a few months...