Word: yank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would say his politics-he is somewhat ambidextrous, using his right hand to write, playing tennis with his left. He was lefthanded as a boy, but his father tied a string to his left wrist at the dinner table. When Nelson tried to eat southpaw, his father gave a yank. Rockefeller does not smoke and only occasionally has a Dubonnet on the rocks or some wine. There is no way of telling that he is a Rockefeller from his dress. His nondescript suits are invariably rumpled, his ties unmemorable...
...death, although an item in that same day's Tribune about the newsman's failing health might have alerted editors to the risk that the story posed. After Huntley's death the Trib decided not to cut the piece out of the already printed copies or yank the magazine entirely-at an estimated cost of $100,000 in production fees and lost advertising. Magazine Editor John Fink defends the decision to print and then stick by the article: "It was basically a story on Huntley and his life, and it seemed to me that if he should...
...charged with conspiracy after a police investigation. According to British law, the instant a civil or criminal matter is formally brought before a court, newsmen risk jail for contempt if they publish more about the case than is revealed in open court. The Times felt that it had to yank the editorial from the remaining press run. In its place appeared much white space and a note explaining that the article had been rendered "potentially prejudicial...
...already has 800 volunteers waiting to participate. Says one man who is already involved, Sergeant William Conreux: "At first there was some apprehension that the public, especially in the black neighborhoods, would be hostile, but none of that has emerged. It's just the opposite. Some parents even yank their kids onto the street to introduce them to a real, live policeman." St. Louis police received fan letters from citizens lauding the program, and the restaurants and stores in the areas report increased business. One woman was so enthusiastic she telephoned the captain in charge of the program...
...election year game of tug of war shaping up between Richard Nixon and the Democratic-controlled Congress, both sides last week exerted an important political yank. The President, as expected, formally warned legislators that federal spending in fiscal 1973 must be kept to a maximum of $250 billion, and he threatened to veto bills "calling for excessive spending, which threatens the federal budget." Nixon was clearly worried by the nation's ballooning deficit, which is expected to reach $35 billion in the current fiscal year...