Word: tug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision to miss the first three months of the basketball season has caused a tug-of-war between the two programs, and Folkl has been caught in the middle...
Bethlehem, Nazareth in Holy Battle Come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem? Not if Nazareth can help it. The two towns are engaged in a tug-of-war over the title of Jesus' hometown ? with millions in tourism revenues at stake...
...pull back a paper ship hatch to find slaves stacked like cordwood. British historian Hugh Thomas (no relation) has published The Slave Trade (Simon & Schuster; $37.50). Tracking the barter of Africans from 1440 to 1870, Thomas ranges through Europe, Arabia, Africa and the Americas. As societies spin and tug at one another like a warped solar system, a sad message emerges: no hand is clean. Thomas notes that the true voice of the slave, usually unable to record his own history, is missing. The best substitute, he surmises, is a writer's imagination. "In the end, the novelist beats...
Weighed down by a bookbag packed so tightly that she is forced to wedge her statistics textbook under her arm, Ocon's five-foot, two-inch frame firmly grasps the carriage's top and with one quick tug manages to detach it from the body...
...doctor informed us that even with all the advances in technology, our chances of conceiving were just 1%, I felt devastated, yes, but I also felt relieved. If her words provided the final tug on the noose that had been strangling my hopes, they also supplied the means to cut me free without guilt. I did not question the diagnosis. I did not want a second opinion. By now I knew that for me, becoming a mother was an imperative; conceiving a child...