Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their energy was a source of constant consternation to everyone who tried to keep up with them. They had hardly arrived at the L.B.J. Ranch for a rest before the Kennedy girls had picked teams for water polo, run through a touch-football game and corralled survivors for a tug of war. By dinnertime they were ready with a skit spoofing the lines they had fluffed along the way. A lone male reporter, almost dismembered during the tug of war, sighed dolefully about the campaign ahead: "If these are the women, what can the men be like...
...line grew heavy as lead, When up rose a creature whose every feature Resembled her husband dead. "Come hither to me in the deep blue sea." And he gave such a tug on the line That he dragged her down in her seagreen gown. While she sang "Forever Thine...
Though long-term interest rates may resist the FRB's downward tug for some time, volatile short-term rates-the costs of financing shipments and storage of goods-have already eased. Many short-term Government securities are held by foreign investors, and the drop in interest rates may encourage them to seek higher rates elsewhere in the world, cause a drain on U.S. gold reserves. The gold outflow has picked up speed in recent weeks, now totals some $384 million this year. But this is a healthy improvement over this time last year when the U.S. had lost nearly...
...photographed nuisance of herself oT the U.S. Atlantic Coast-taking bearings on U.S. coastal radars, barging boldly into the midst of fleet and Air Force maneuvers. On one occasion, in a practice session off Long Island, the U.S. nuclear sub George Washington fired a dummy Polaris, and a Navy tug churned over to recover the missile. Before it got there, the Vega steamed over the horizon, headed straight for the floating missile...
...LONG Row TO HOE, by Billy C. Clark (233 pp.; Crowell; $4.50), at first seems to tug too unashamedly at the reader's sympathies. In fact, this autobiographical sketch of a Kentucky boyhood is flecked by neither self-pity nor stuffiness, and its markings of American life are so authentic that a latter-day Mark Twain could reshape it without much trouble into a new Huckleberry Finn...