Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toilet paper tug-of-war at the Ames campus, about 30 miles north of Des Moines, has gotten national attention, and Collier said in a telephone interview that her phone hadn't stopped ringing since the story broke...
Most of the crew members were evacuated to nearby Soviet merchant ships, and a U.S. Navy tug was in the area ready to assist if needed, officials said...
...backlash of this psychosexual tug-of-war is a devestating assault on social mores. The underside of Jeffrey and Sandy's courtship is sadomasochistic sexual initiation, and the institute of marriage is lampooned by intentionally overbearing organ music. Though Lynch seems deadset on satirizing the family, Blue Velvet exudes a romanticism for it akin to that of National Velvet. Perhaps he's saying you can regurgitate your cake and eat it too. Pardon...
...Sterns named Melissa Elizabeth. She refused the agreed-upon payment from the Sterns, so the money was put in an escrow account. A few days later the Sterns agreed to let Whitehead keep the baby for a short time. When the child was not returned after several weeks, the tug-of-war began...
Even cocaine use has evened out. Though some 22 million Americans have felt the euphoric tug of its 20-minute high, the number of "current users" (those who have taken the drug in the past 30 days) has remained constant since 1979, at about 4.3 million. "Drugs come and go," says Donald Ian Mcdonald of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, "and cocaine has seen its period of social acceptability and of harmlessness put behind us now. I'd guess we'll see a relative improvement in the number of young people willing to try cocaine. Certainly...