Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brad, who says he's "leaning towards President Nixon," kicked off the big weekend by sponsoring a Tug-of-War between the class of '74 and the class of '75 on Thursday night...
...unambiguous joy: three American prisoners of war returning to their families after long months of imprisonment in North Viet Nam. Instead, the route home last week assumed the quality of an international morality play, an occasionally bitter and tearful business that caught the three pilots in a propaganda tug-of-war involving the North Vietnamese, the Pentagon and the American peace movement. All three sides were using the flyers as pawns in a larger drama of image and diplomacy...
...same floor. Columnist Marianne Means took advantage of the moment to ask a blunt question: "Can you promise me personally that you will never propose any federal tax increases while you are in the White House?" Just as the President answered "Absolutely," Marianne felt "three good strong tugs" at her shoulder-length blonde hair. Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, who was standing behind her, had chosen a new way to cut off unwanted questions. Marianne decided not to fight back. "His own hair is too short to tug properly, and a kick in the shins would not have been ladylike...
...months, Ricord has been sitting in an Asunción prison cell, at the center of a diplomatic tug of war between the Nixon Administration and Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner's military dictatorship. Since October 1970, when federal agents seized five couriers with a shipment of 97.5 lbs. of heroin (worth about $12 million on the street) in Miami and succeeded in tracing it back to Ricord, the U.S. has been seeking to extradite him on conspiracy charges, alleging that he is the kingpin of a syndicate that piped more than 11,000 lbs. of heroin ($1.2 billion) through...
...election year game of tug of war shaping up between Richard Nixon and the Democratic-controlled Congress, both sides last week exerted an important political yank. The President, as expected, formally warned legislators that federal spending in fiscal 1973 must be kept to a maximum of $250 billion, and he threatened to veto bills "calling for excessive spending, which threatens the federal budget." Nixon was clearly worried by the nation's ballooning deficit, which is expected to reach $35 billion in the current fiscal year...