Word: tugged
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...What matters is that when North Korea pressed, U.S. negotiators squirmed. Now there is an unseemly tug-of-war in Washington, with State Department officials wheedling Treasury counterparts to let up, just a bit, on their international campaign against counterfeiting and money laundering, so that a charter member of the Axis of Evil can be lured back to the six-party table. The outcome is still uncertain. If Pyongyang does get its frozen millions back, and the past is prologue, Kim will pocket the money, then detonate another nuke at the time and place of his choosing. He understands that...
Kids in the town of Panguitch, Utah�(pop. 1,600), have a name for Tom Hartsfield: Santa. Hartsfield encourages it, telling them he lives in Utah because it's too cold to stay at the North Pole year round. He'll even invite them to tug his beard if they seem doubtful. When they discover that the white whiskers are real, they tend to give him "sort of a shocked look," he says. "The real beard makes them believe more...
...show don’t come off as people so much as representations of varying types of lust. This lust-driven view of human relationships stands in stark contrast to that of “Seinfeld,” where all the fun was watching the emotional tug of war outside the bedroom. Rhimes, Clack, and company could have their sex and use it, too, if they only allowed their characters to say something meaningful pre- and post-intercourse. —Staff writer Kyle L. K. McAuley can be reached at kmcauley@fas.harvard.edu
...into our pants, which is way easier since we have a no-cut policy. No black balls here, just an aching set of blue ones. See, while you’re so busy trading compliments at the cocktail hour, the best us guys can do is trade meaningless tug-jobs in the men’s bathroom, which can get pretty bloody...
...Friday night but was handed a 3-1 defeat by a powerful Cornell squad the following afternoon in Ithaca.The come-from-behind win against Columbia snapped a four-match losing streak for the Crimson (9-10, 3-5 Ivy). The team hoped to use the momentum from the tug-of-war against the Lions to take down then-third-place Cornell but was overwhelmed by the strength of the Big Red’s hitters. Junior co-captain Laura Mahon linked the mixed results this weekend with the Crimson defense. “[Against Columbia], we did a good...