Word: tug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...execute foreign policy in the way it should properly be conducted. Congress was an impediment; its members, by and large, were not properly schooled in the hard-fought, intricate practice of diplomatic affairs, and were more likely to respond to the uninformed concerns of their voters, to the shoddy tug-and-pull of the popular political process, than to the arduous twists and turns of great power relationships. The bureaucracy, too, was an enemy: no imagination, no flair, no speed or adaptability, little grasp of the sacrifices and risks one must incur if one were to maintain a flexible policy...
...crust itself is probably relatively thin. But during differentiation, the tug of terrestrial gravity would probably have pulled more dense material to the side of the moon facing the earth. As a result the crust there would have been slightly squeezed and become thinner than that on the far side. Indeed, such an uneven distribution of crust was offered by University of Chicago Mineralogist Joseph Smith to explain the paucity of maria on the far side. These great lunar seas are believed to be vast upwellings of lava, perhaps from volcanic eruptions set off by the moon's collision...
Investors, executives, blue-collar workers and just about everybody else agree that the U.S. economy has been suffering through a recession. But most of President Nixon's aides have avoided that word, preferring to describe their engineered economic slowdown as an "adjustment" or a "recedence." The semantic tug of war might seem to be only an academic matter, but it could have important political consequences in the 1972 election. Nixon figures that the last recession cost him the presidency...
Most of the new communards are fleeing what they regard as the constriction, loneliness, materialism and the hypocrisy in straight society and the family life on which it is based. Yet some of the same old problems reappear?for example, the tug of war between individualism and submission to the group. One contributor to the Whole Earth Catalog summed up his own experience. "If the intentional community hopes to survive, it must be authoritarian, and if it is authoritarian, it offers no more free dom than conventional society. Those communes based on freedom inevitably fail, usually within a year...
...buildings must leak," explains English Architecture Critic Reyner Banham. "They are living things. They must breathe." If they are not allowed to breathe, strange things happen: the blowers that constantly pump air into the enclosed space cause pressure to build up, and the building begins to screech, pull and tug. To those within the bubble, says Banham, "it's like being inside a toad...