Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOUTHEAST ASIA A Fishhook Hypothesis? Hardly anyone talks about the dom ino theory any more. Would you be lieve the fishhook hypothesis? On the geographical fishhook formed by North and South Viet Nam, the neighboring countries of Southeast Asia keenly feel each tug and convulsion of the Vietnamese war. Increasingly, many of them consider their future to be linked directly to the war. "The eventual fate of South and Southeast Asia," Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said last week, "depends more and more on the decisions of America, China and Russia than on the decisions...
...Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen. Though it is essentially a two-character play, Dame Judith as the queen hissing "Go to Ireland-go to hell" made it a one-woman show. Torn between pride for country and passion for the Earl of Essex (Heston), she played the tug of war with exquisite skill, slowly losing grip and, in the end, turning into a living mummy. Heston, unfortunately, seemed slightly embalmed to begin with...
...union bosses and tell them what we think of the strike. But we can't. We're afraid we'd get our husbands into trouble with the union." A veteran Draper, Utah miner calls it the "most senseless strike in the world. It's a tug of war for power. And what are they gaining? Nothing." Not surprisingly, when the Salt Lake Tribune polled 696 copper workers on their feelings, 70% favored returning to work while negotiations continued...
...long ago when the masters initiated parietals and when Mrs. Bunting allowed Radcliffe girls to sign out overnight. That fact signified that the university, although concerned, did not see fit to interfere in the private affairs of its students. The whole problem of parietals is a distasteful and vulgar tug-of-war which challenges the university in an area where the greatest possible concession has already been made. The university is wrong to limit parietals for reasons made explicit above. The student body is wrong to operate under a control which is permissive ... but just so much...
...meet those needs, Lusteveco has been spending some $4,000,000 a year on new equipment, which is a lot by Philippine standards. Its own yards at II-oilo turn out a new tug every six weeks, two new barges a month-most of them prestressed concrete creatures that carry 2,000 tons of cargo, are cheaper and easier to maintain than standard steel barges...