Word: tugged
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...making it in showbiz, for the privilege of being blessed with drop-dead looks and boundless energy, she has been paying her dues for too long. Though she made just two soft-core sex movies, porn doesn't want to give her up: sex, or at least the tug of it in a character, defines nearly all of the roles she has played. She wants to do more acting?real acting, not just flaunting her face in ads, or her neck-snapping body in thinly disguised erotic films. But she has been trapped by her success?and by her adviser...
...order to truly succeed in politics, it is necessary to be more than a great politician. He needs to be a strong man, a father, a husband, a cool dude, all at the same time. In other words, a populist who can tug Taiwan's voters to the polls this December and lead his Democratic People's Party (DPP) to a legislative plurality. Great leaders like Roosevelt, Mao and Chiang Kai-shek had that ability to reach through whatever medium they were using and connect with their people. For Chen, successful at everything he has done, finding...
...difficult to stroll through the Yard these days without feeling the tug of socially just causes mixed in with the spring weather...
...addition, the "House Olympics" will feature a relay race, a tug of war and a pie-eating contest, among other activities...
...Long-standing tensions and rivalries between NAFTA and Mercosur have blossomed into a behind-the-scenes tug-of-war over the summit agenda. There are major uncertainties about how the meeting chemistry will be affected by the interaction among newcomers like U.S. president George W. Bush, Mexican president Vicente Fox Quesada and the mercurial Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías - alongside such veterans as the durable Jean Chrétien of Canada and Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso...