Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad jump, finished second with 23 ft. 3½ in. But he hurt his hip in the process, and Coach Chambers served notice that Dave would jump no more until after the Olympic trials in June. Said Chambers: "I just got a letter from [Big Ten Commissioner] Tug Wilson. He said that sometimes it's been known that a man can get hurt broad jumping and please would I consider leaving Dave out of it for a while. Tug said that Dave could be the best we've got anywhere in the country, and might even...
...from Desperation. But not just any eye can measure the whole force of Puerto Rico's tug at its bootstrap. The full change dates from the '303, when the economy revolved around the apathetic peasant sugar-cane cutter, and when industry-even rum-making-hardly existed. In 1940, Puerto Rico resolved that it was going to transform itself. Industrialization became a major goal. As a starter, the government bought out mossback electric companies, built dams, strung transmission lines, and thus provided the electricity that powers today's boom. But the most astute stroke was the 1942 creation...
...simple as to be almost nonexistent is Beckett's tale of two penniless, hapless, smelly tramps waiting, in a barren countryside, for a neighborhood personage named Godot. They chatter, gnaw carrots, tug at a tight shoe, talk of going separate ways and of hanging themselves, encounter a rich, unhappy magnate driving his servant before him as with whips. At the end of Act 1, a boy arrives to say that Godot cannot come that night but will the next. The next night, after further waiting and talking, a boy arrives to say that again Godot cannot come. As before...
...world's richest private collections, amassed by Spain's late Francisco de Assis Cambo, was back home last week after a 3½-year tug of war between Argentina and Spain. As the cream of the collection was readied for hanging in Barcelona's Museo de Arte de Cataluna, Spaniards discovered that the prize was well worth the haggling. Spread out before them was an eye-filling feast of masterpieces by Spaniards Zurburan, Murillo and Goya and such other masters as Rubens, Cranach, Tiepolo, Botticelli and Correggio...
East-West tensions tug more severely at brother Kit. When Mama unleashes the marriage brokers to round up a suitable bride for him, Kit balks: "How can I marry a girl I have not even seen? Sleep with her, call her my wife?" But after Premala, a devoted homebody with a sweet disposition, lives with the family for a few months, even Kit can think of no good reason for not marrying...