Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grim tug-of-war between Oklahoma and New York ended last week when a federal judge ordered Thomas Grasso returned to New York to serve a prison term of 20 years to life. Oklahoma had planned to execute Grasso for the 1990 murder of an elderly Tulsa woman, but the judge determined that Grasso, who wanted to be executed, was obligated first to serve his sentence for killing a New York...
...first baseball memory that I can consciously remember was from the 1980 World Series. Tug McGraw, the Phillies closer, comes on in the ninth and strikes out some faceless Kansas City Royal to win the Series in Game Six, and the Vet goes crazy...
...McMurtry started off: "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake . . ." You can't stop reading there. ". . . not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over. The sow had it by the neck, and the shoat had the tail. 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking the shoat. 'Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.' It was the porch he begrudged...
...four-parent tug-of-war, she suffers
...necessary to close the case. The author presents what appears to be a best-case scenario (the victim sustains no lasting physical injuries, all officialdom is uniformly kind and civil) while managing to skewer upper-middle-class denial in the face of shocking events. But the woman's constant tug-of-war between pursuing justice and putting the horror behind her is a painfully real -- and often hopelessly contradictory -- struggle the reader shares at every turn...