Word: tugged
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...Someone will come and tug on your sleeve...and you need to write it down,” she said, describing how her characters develop and grow into plays...
...shopping period” and the accuracy of enrollment predictions ever since students first started regularly adding and dropping classes, when Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, was president of Harvard. But according to Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. ’59, the modern tug of war over preregistration dates to 1977, when a group of Faculty members, concerned about the disorder of shopping period, proposed a system of preregistration. This failed, in part because of student resistance. Since then, the issue has come up again every few years or so—most recently...
...remedy after another—humiliating interlopers with a sonorous gong, identifying residents with fashionable ID stickers emblazoned with the Adams seal—but nothing quite worked. Eventually, after Pforzheimer defeated Adams in a “war” of nutrition, which included a football game, a tug-of-war battle and a musical theater production, Adams agreed to “adopt” Pforzheimer House. Residents of that Quadded fiefdom partake of the joys of Adams dining without having to resort to any subterfuge or indignity. But all other non-Adamsians wishing to enter its veritable...
...rode was the pressing need for more padding under my duff. But I was happy to be among the few Westerners who have had a taste of Mongolia, the rocky, remote north-central Asian country with few fences and fewer roads--the realm of Genghis Khan and a political tug toy of China and Russia until well into the 20th century. Since the Alaska-size former Soviet satellite gained independence in 1990, it has opened to travelers seeking adventure in breathtakingly pristine country. A dearth of such conveniences as electricity and phones makes Mongolia a challenge, but that's part...
...rage: follow the polls, follow the focus groups, follow your consultants. "Leadership," wrote Dick Morris, the Iago of the Clinton era, "is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go." And guess who usually wins that tug-of-war? (Actually, it's neither the voters nor the politician; it's the consultant who massages the data and advises, "Be careful, Mr. President. Try something bite-size.") So it has been fun to watch Young Bush fly in the face of the mingy, tactical, peripheral politics of recent years...