Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally. The sense of false understanding, of confusion and vulnerability at the core; all of it driven by the steady and growing pain from her tooth." Or page 89: "She remembered those two months . . . as being among the most miserable of her life." Or page 31: ". . . she feels a tug of revulsion at herself . . . for moving cowlike, thickly . . ." Lottie Gardner does, in fact, have serious dental problems throughout this irritating novel. But the ruling fact of her life is not that she has a toothache, but that...
Saffold said the Black community is in a "tug-of-war to reclaim [its] intelligence...
...appeal designed to tug heartstrings. But Baird's apologia did not play well in Peoria -- or the rest of America. Irate callers jammed the phone lines of radio and cable stations across the country, denouncing her tax dodging and calling on her to withdraw. The switchboard on Capitol Hill lit up as constituents weighed in with their representatives. In a single day, Senator Paul Simon's Washington office logged 1,000 calls. "In 18 years in the Senate," said Senator Patrick Leahy, "I had never seen so many telephone calls, spontaneously, in such a short period." Senator Nancy Kassebaum...
...tanks and setting it ablaze. Fortunately, most of the escaping oil quickly burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers had secured the drifting 260,000-ton ship to a tug and had brought the blaze under partial control. It was the third major tanker accident in as many weeks...
...spilling oil. The tanker Braer, owned by a subsidiary of a U.S. firm, ran aground Tuesday after its engines failed during a storm. A few hours before the ship hit the rocks, helicopters took the crew off, so no one was aboard to secure a line to a rescue tug. As rough seas kept salvors from pumping off the remaining crude, the slick threatened to kill thousands of birds. The Braer's operator, Bergvall & Hudner, said its $700 million in insurance will cover damage claims...