Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Firm Tug. Limping because of her broken foot, Polly Mills grabbed her husband's hand and firmly tugged him through the mob of newsmen at the Little Rock airport. One man held up a sign that read SUPPORT THE KENNEDY-MILLS WATER SAFETY BILL, but that gibe did not appear to reflect the majority opinion on Mills' escapade. The next evening an enthusiastic gathering of Jaycees laughed and shouted "Good for you, Wilbur" as Mills attempted to explain what had happened. "I was one of those who went out one night and did something I shouldn...
Once the dimensions of the love triangle are established, the struggle for Simon--who is half crazed by ambition and a desire to regain childhood--drags on for a whole act. The tug of war consists of monotonous arguments between Sara and Deborah as to who's stronger and more loving. Just when one of the ladies seems about to edge out the competition, Simon's indecision changes the tide of battle. Frankly, he's not worth the fuss...
...planets line up, they say, the combined gravitational tug will raise large tides and cause great flare-ups on the sun, which will then be at the peak of its eleven-year sunspot cycle. The solar storms will spew out streams of charged particles more intense than usual, disrupting radio communications on earth, creating exceptionally bright northern (and southern) lights, and affecting global weather patterns. Prevailing west-to-east winds will moderate, decreasing their contribution to the earth's rotation and allowing it to slow ever so slightly. The abrupt slowdown would provide the necessary nudge, as Gribbin...
...lose or gain at Caracas than the U.S. It has the world's longest coastline (counting the Aleutian, Hawaiian and Micronesian archipelagoes), the mightiest Navy, the most extensive investment in offshore oil and mining. The rather liberal U.S. oceans policy was the product of a long, twisting tug of war between a number of personalities and interests...
There is the ring of truth to his delivery, even when he makes sudden shifts of pitch or volume, along with a host of neat touches, like his affectionate farewell tug at Balthasar's cap near the end. In the tomb, he picks Juliet up from her bier and cradles her body on the floor during his final soliloquy (the finest speech Shakespeare gave him). In a departure from custom, at his last words--"Thus with a kiss I die"--he is able to move forward only part way toward Juliet's lips before he falls back dead, thus showing...