Word: tuggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to cull support for his encounter with the hospital director, the director is going frantic trying to stave off the demonstrators. Meanwhile patients are mislaid, the bookkeeper harasses a dying man to get his Blue Shield number, and Scott and Rigg are carrying on their own private tug-of-war over whether to stay or go to Mexico, she dressed in a nurse's uniform because her blouse had been ripped...
...Moral Tug of War. For the churches, the problem is that the more they try to bring their beliefs in line with this relativistic criterion, the more they run afoul of fundamental traditions and become involved in a moral tug of war with their conservative laymen. The controversy that may face the 10.8 millionmember United" Methodist Church is typical. Last month its Committee on Family Life issued a resolution implicitly condoning sex for single persons, homosexuals, and those living in unspecified "other styles of interpersonal relationship." The resolution cuts directly across the church's venerable Social Creed, which states...
...With a tug on a cable, the $12.9 million lunar rover folded slowly out of Falcon's side. Its hollow, wire-mesh wheels snapped into place, and the moon car was lowered to the ground. Like most earthly vehicles the rover had a problem: the front-wheel steering did not work. Nonetheless, a 25-yard test drive showed that it was ready to go with its back wheels steering. After a motherly reminder from Mission Control ("Okay, Dave, remember to buckle up for safety"), the astronauts clambered aboard, strapped themselves into place, pushed the control stick forward and moved...
Even before the first Apollo flight, lunar scientists had made a startling discovery. They found that the unmanned lunar orbiters were being thrown unexpectedly off course as they passed over certain lunar seas. Careful calculation showed that this extra gravitational tug was apparently due to concentrations of denser material under the moon's surface. These "mascons," as they were dubbed, still defy explanation, although theories abound: one says that they are heavy material that crystallized early in the moon's history; another claims they are the compacted residue of meteors. To complicate matters, careful tracking of the Apollo...
...assassination attempt posed a cruel dilemma for Italian Americans, who regard the league as a voice for their frustrations and have attempted to overlook Colombo's Mafia life. Father Louis Gigante possesses a unique in sight into this moral tug of war: he is both the league chaplain and the younger brother of a man who was accused of trying to assassinate Frank Costello in 1957. Father Gigante was among those keeping vigil outside Roosevelt Hospital. Said he: "The league is definitely a positive thing, but all they talk about in the papers is the crime thing...