Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the tug-of-war came to an end. San Diego Superior Court Judge Judith McConnell bowed to Brian's wishes and left him in the "stable and wholesome environment" provided by Corbett. Betty Lou Batey stormed out in the middle of the hearing, but will not challenge the decision. Said she: "All I can say is that I believe in the ultimate judge...
...consolidation. Hugh and Dorsey do not grow apart; they are put together again, reknit into their shared heritage of parents and the past. Life does not happen that way, of course, but First Light never seems implausible. Instead, the novel moves over everyday details with the inexorable, contrary tug of memory...
Still, no one has it easy. For Associate Editor Claudia Wallis, who wrote the main story, long days apart from her ten-month-old son Nathaniel are hard. "There's an enormous tug at your heart come the end of the day," she says, "because there's this little person you want to see, and who wants to see you." One plus about a tug at the heart: it beats a crack of the whip as an incentive to get the job done and get home...
...showpiece of the operation was the Navy's Deep Drone, a sophisticated undersea robot. The drone was connected to the U.S. Navy tug Apache by an umbilical cord that transmitted commands and returned data from an array of cameras and sensors to shipboard computers and monitors. An acoustical locating system, accurate to within 20 in., will guide scientists in assembling a photomosaic of the more than 2,000 high-resolution still photographs the drone has taken of the ship's hull. In addition, a sonar scan will be used to make a false-color three-dimensional computer...
This land and these people who are my ghosts, who loved their home and traditions, who felt profoundly comfortable in the heat of a stultifying Southern summer, these tug at me and tell me I must return to the South bearing gifts from Harvard, that I must give up my great love of the intensity and impatience of the North in order to regain a place in the South...