Word: tugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 8 p.m. on May 15, a group of students standing outside of Stoughton Hall found a long stout rope in the bushes -- apparently discarded by Building and Grounds. Being sturdy, stalwart lads, they decided to have a tug...
...judge (Robert Symonds), a sort of pie-eyed Falstaff in a sloppy judicial gown, prescribes the test of the chalk circle to determine the true mother. The little boy stands in the center of the circle, and each woman holds one of his arms and is told to tug him out. Grusha lets go so as not to hurt the boy, and is adjudged the true mother for acting motherly. The moral: "What there is shall go to those who are good for it." This could prove that millionaires are best qualified to have money, but Brecht uses...
...became evident that a controlling and supervisory body would be necessary to insure future growth for the port. Joseph P. Kennedy and a legislative commission researched the matter and proposed a state Department of Commerce. Massachusetts politics being what they are, however, the proposal soon became involved in a tug of war between the Governor and those business interests opposed to the Fair Employment Practice Commission, also on the boards that year. The Governor got his Commission, but the Department of Commerce was pushed aside and it was only with some difficulty that a much less solvent and effective Port...
...silk-jersey Turkish harem pants that left the legs exposed to the hips. Tiziani had his models don jeweled or plain bras that allowed the one-shoulder evening dresses to drape as they pleased. Even that had to yield to Ognibene-Zendman's show-stealing suit: one quick tug at its hidden waistband controls and the skirt's pleats reverse themselves, flop over from blue to green...
...Newfoundland's and Nov Scotia's stern coasts. Among them were Hay Island, periodically exposed to it roots by the incredible fall of the Fundy tide, and Funk Island, on whose granite crest the great auk passed into extinction. Russell effectively translates for nonislomanes the mystical tug of the secret places offshore, "priceless monuments of primeval earth...