Word: tugged
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...fissures from which the plumes erupt. "Enceladus' orbit around Saturn is eccentric," Mitchell says. It's just enough off of circular that the effect of gravity on the moon is different from one point to another, and different from the planet's other moons. "That difference in the tug would be enough to cause the body to distort differently as it goes around Saturn." The friction created when sides of the tiger stripes are pulled apart or pushed together at different points during orbit may be creating the heat that ultimately causes the eruptions...
...scoring tug-of-war game, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team slipped to host Siena by a 6-5 score, Saturday, in coach John Tillman’s first game for the Crimson.“I think that today’s game should be a lesson to us that you can’t underestimate any team,” tri-captain Nick La Fiura said. “I don’t think that the coach had underprepared us, but maybe some of us thought less of this team than maybe we would have...
...Party (AKP) has moved to lift a ban on young women wearing headscarves at universities. The country's secularists, who see the headscarf as a symbol of political Islam, are up in arms over the proposed reform. The debate is the latest installment in the ongoing and increasingly bitter tug of war between the government and a militantly secularist establishment long used to getting...
...Obama needs strong women. If you compare his narrow win in Missouri to the thumpings he took in California and Massachusetts, the women's vote is clearly the key. Obama ran even with Clinton among women in Missouri, probably for two reasons. He has decisively won the tug-of-war over the votes of black women. But where African-Americans comprised a small segment of the vote, as they did in California and Massachusetts, this didn't help him much. He also had the vigorous support of Missouri's leading Democratic women - Sen. Claire McCaskill and former Sen. Jean Carnahan...
...Guinea worm makes its presence known in the human body when it tries to leave, emerging in a painful blister. But it does not go far on its own, and must instead be removed manually through a daily bandaging routine. Health workers unwrap the bandage from the day before, tug the worm a few millimeters, and then apply a new bandage. The process is excruciating, as a worm can take up to two weeks to be completely pulled out, and patients with an emerged worm are often in too much pain to walk. Being unable to walk means being unable...