Word: tug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forced to take into the current government. The N.S.P. leader is Necmettin Erbakan, 51, a smug hard-liner who insists that Turkey made a "concession" on Cyprus by not occupying the entire island. Commented Justice Party Deputy Nuri Bayar with a bitter smile: "We could wind up in a tug of war over a politician that neither side wants. That's the Oriental side of Turkish politics...
Heavy Strain. Yet the New Breed feels the tug of old values and Traditionalists feel the pull of the new. The study reports that Traditionalists are less willing to make sacrifices for their children than their parents were. Moreover, Traditionalists generally agree with New Breeders (though by a smaller majority) that unhappy parents should not remain married simply for the sake of the children...
This was supposed to be it. The Big One. Superfreshman Ronnie Perry and his Holy Cross baseball mates staging a diamond tug-of-war with Loyal Park and his Kiddie Korps. Plenty of fans, oodles of sunshine, buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks...
...impoverished colonies into history's richest nation. Frontier mythmakers celebrated the idea that Americans could summon limitless supplies of energy for whatever needed doing, most notably in the tales about Paul Bunyan, who could harness his ox Babe to straighten out the bends in rivers with a single tug. If Faust, the archetypal European, believed that the world was created anew each morn, Americans had a more practical faith: the world and its riches were inexhaustible, easily accessible and-above all-theirs. The American megalopolis of superhighways, hermetically sealed buildings and shopping malls enclosed in artificial climates seems almost...
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