Word: tugged
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...could prove their worth. Usually in such circumstances, the men oblige, says Collins, but that doesn't spare women some awkward moments. "Even when I take off my helmet, the Iraqi women don't believe I'm a female," says Sergeant Elizabeth Ricci, 20. "They'll come up and tug my hair." And Iraqi men? "One man saw a ring on my finger and asked who I was married to," she recalls. Joking around, Ricci pointed to a male soldier beside her. "Next thing, the Iraqi opens his wallet and is over there trying to buy me," she says...
...When I graduated from college in 1982, abortion was not a matter of debate among women I knew. We didn't tug and pull at the ethical implications of it, or stay up late debating the legal logic underlying the Roe decision. It was just there, a safety net, the kind of right we hoped we'd never to have to exercise, but were grateful to have just in case...
...stepfather LaMar, a security officer; and half brother Jovan, 14. Bush's relationship with his biological father, which he describes as a "a roller coaster," complicated his childhood. "It was tough with both sides of the family not getting along too well," he says. "[I was] caught in a tug-of-war." Bush calls LaMar his father (during his Heisman acceptance speech, Bush broke down while thanking him). Luckily, football offered plenty of solace. Bush ran for eight touchdowns in his second Pop Warner game...
...Song of Jacob Zulu. Tug Yourgrau's play about the making of a black South African terrorist was raw but unforgettable in Eric Simonson's epic staging, brought to Broadway by Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe. K.Todd Freeman glowed in the title role, Zakes Mokae excelled as several elders, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the a cappella singing group, served gloriously as a modern Greek chorus...
Going beyond a tug on the heartstrings, the change of theaters is also a break of hoary habit. There will be a new environment for the stage managers, technicians, producers, and actors to adapt...