Word: tugged
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...DIED. FRANK (TUG) MCGRAW, 59, exuberant baseball relief pitcher whose phrase "Ya gotta believe!" was the rallying cry of the New York Mets' unlikely last-to-first run for the 1973 National League pennant; of brain cancer; in Nashville. McGraw, who was known for on-field antics such as feigning heart palpitations when home-run balls drifted foul, pitched in the World Series for the Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. Asked how he would spend his bonus from the 1973 Mets pennant, McGraw replied, "Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish whiskey. The other 10 percent...
...diplomacy normally involves the disguising of discord, Bush's policy meant inflaming it: NATO and the U.N. were divided; so was our own government, as State, the Pentagon and the CIA grappled in a three-way tug-of-war. One Marine, training in Kuwait's northern desert and waiting for war to begin, wondered whether protesters would spit on him when he came home. But for all the dissension, no one was blaming the soldiers: antiwar demonstrators argued they were fighting to defend our troops against an ill-conceived mission based on distorted intelligence. Even Howard Dean, whose antiwar campaign...
...need to know a bogie from a driving wheel to feel the romantic tug of the age of steam-train travel. A day spent aboard England's Cathedrals Express, chuffing from London to spired cities like Salisbury, Canterbury or Bath and back, is a mighty whiff of postwar nostalgia-and a glimpse into the obsessive otherworld of the trainspotters, who track locomotives the way some folks watch birds...
...need to know a bogie from a driving wheel to feel the romantic tug of the age of steam-train travel. A day spent aboard England's Cathedrals Express, chuffing from London to spired cities like Salisbury, Canterbury or Bath and back, is a mighty whiff of postwar nostalgia - and a glimpse into the obsessive otherworld of the trainspotters, who track locomotives the way some folks watch birds. The service is run by the tiny Steam Dreams company with the aid of volunteers who maintain vintage locomotives like the 1945-built Bodmin. Its 1960s cars are wood-paneled, the seats...
Given the obstacles the administration must overcome to build anything in Allston—high costs, difficult town/gown negotiations and the moving pre-existing athletic facilities—Quadlings will stay put for at least another decade. But until the move, the tug of war between short-term appeasement of Quad residents and the long-term relocation of housing will be a major drain on the College’s administrative energy—and its coffers...