Word: tugged
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Sometimes when two children fight over a precious toy, they squabble and yowl and tug at the treasure until a grownup steps in, separates them and awards it to one or the other. And sometimes by then, the toy turns out to be broken, and the winner ends up as sad and bitter as the loser...
...presidency isn't broken, at least not yet. Bill Clinton's impeachment proved how sturdy the office still is. But as Al Gore and George W. Bush squabble and tug and await the outcome in Florida, the office of the 43rd President is being diminished. Even before the Gore campaign threatened to settle this election in court and the Bush team went after an injunction against hand-counting votes, it was obvious that the winner would face profound questions of illegitimacy and have a weak grip on presidential power--which is, after all, merely on loan from the voters...
They have left the tug and pull to their surrogates, who have not hesitated to invoke the rhetoric of crisis and calamity...
...objects Marcy looks at aren't especially faint: he and his collaborators find planets by looking for stars that wobble under the gravitational tug of unseen companions. But the wobbles are so subtle that a lesser telescope can barely detect them. "With a 10-m telescope," says Marcy, "we can look at fainter stars and pick out the signature of smaller objects...
...forget it!" Nick says. "It's all the conversation! Anybody who's not into it is just shut out of it! Our bar--everybody's a Yankees fan. In Flushing, where I live--all Mets. Both places, it's tense! There's gonna be fisticuffs before this tug-of-war's through. It's just like...