Word: tug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unless Cronin takes some more serious steps towards immediate implementation of the rent rollback, or unless the city manager appoints a competent administrator soon, the new rent control law will only continue to serve as a tug of war rope between Cambridge tenants and landlords. The law was meant for more than that...
...appears. He wears a coat. As he sheds the coat, he reveals to the audience that he is performing the eternal theatrical ritual, dropping the mask, assuming the myth, becoming the man. He pulls out a bandana and ties it around his neck. He gives his forelock a forward tug. Bowed of leg, lariat twirling, stetson arched back over his forehead and shy grin. It is Will Rogers...
Insert finger, tug and quaff: in those few seconds, the aluminum ring atop a pop-top can of beer or soda fulfills its function and becomes instant junk. Garbage men hate the rings because the sharp edges can cut. So do barefooted hippies and strollers on the beach. So do conservationists, who lament the litter. To at least one man, however, pop-top rings are a source of inspiration and income-and the raw material for a revival of a medieval fashion...
...Briggs sailed, towed by a tug and escorted by another tug, a destroyer, and a Coast Guard cutter...
...More than 100,000 people are injured by such wringers each year. Not long ago, for example, a mother in Columbus, Ohio, found her three-year-old daughter strangled by a wringer. The industry has finally begun to install a device that releases the rollers when there is a tug in the opposite direction. Millions of older washers have no such equipment...