Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Losing to Columbia in football is like losing to your grandmother in a game of tug-of-war. It is the ultimate indignity...
Street clashes may mark the front line of the uprising, but at the heart of the resistance lies a passive refusal to cooperate with the occupation. The intifadeh has become a tug of war for economic and psychological advantage. The pervasive commercial strike under which Arab shops open for only three hours a day remains one of the most palpable symbols of Palestinian solidarity. The army has given up trying to break this form of protest...
...Risk, Amanda Farrell will not make it to puberty. Nothing wrenches so hard as the death of a child, and Hoffman knows just when and where to tug. Like Holleran, Hoffman (The Drowning Season, Fortune's Daughter) is mainstreaming a refined literary talent. Her new novel is structured like a movie, which probably explains why 20th Century-Fox wasted no time buying the film rights...
...question of whether to Spike or not to Spike puts Government antidrug crusaders, environmentalists and corporate America in an awkward three-way tug-of-war. Last week Sandra Marquardt of the environmental group Greenpeace accused the State Department of a "scorched-earth tactic that threatens to wipe out most plant life in the region for five years or more." Scientists for the Environmental Protection Agency say Tebuthiuron can harm useful vegetation if it leaches into groundwater. Ecologists contend that it would be difficult for farmers to grow crops after the coca has been destroyed. They point out that Spike...
...stylus that moves across a rotating paper drum. At first Poveromo sees only the line that represents the ocean floor. Then a group of gray blotches suddenly appears on the paper. Poveromo hastily baits three hooks with mullet and tosses them over. Within 30 seconds, a mammoth tug bends one of the poles nearly in half. The ensuing 15-minute battle ends with the landing of a 50-lb. amberjack...