Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy: We are about to face a long tug-of-war to decide the fate of Germany. In the contest to come, let us not pull from fear, but let us not fear to pull. And let us ask not what freedom can do for us; let us ask rather what we can do for Germany. But let us begin...
Nehru (addressing the contestants): At this juncture of human history, we assemble to preserve the peace of the world. The winner of the following tug-of-water will take possession of all the Germany; the loser will quite utterly withdraw from that nation. But that is of another matter. (He blows his whistle...
...READ BEFORE, enthused the Saturday Evening Post in full-page ads introducing the face lifting that was prescribed to cure its ten-year slump in ad linage. Most readers are not likely to be so certain: the new magazine reads like the old Post. The fiction is the same tug-at-the-heartstrings stuff. Nonfiction will be "weeks, months, even years ahead of press coverage," says the Post; yet the new issue explores mainly old press favorites: ex-Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, Broadway Producer David Merrick, the "young widow." the "new" Japan. Only the touted "Revolution by Design" is clearly...
...five declared war on all forms of artistic isolation: the isolation of the artist from society, the isolation of one object from its environment, the isolation of the individual senses. Even a static object had motion, for it could not escape having some sort of tug-of-war with its surroundings. "Our bodies enter into the divans on which we sit, and the divans enter into us," explained the futurists. Motion subjected each object to minute-by-minute change: one thing always led to another, sight invariably involved sound, vision turned into emotion. All this-the total feeling of life...
...Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Ayme. The Mephistophelian French moralist illustrates his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrates that tension with a gusty Vive la différence...