Word: yanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to know Frank Horrigan, what his past is, who at the office he has the hots for. I still want him to save the President, but I don?t want to meet him until afterward. Lift the curtain and the wizard grows smaller. Lift the mirrored sunglasses and yank out the earpiece, and the Secret Service man loses his invincibility. He is no longer a wall between peril and the President, he?s a guy in a gray suit with a lousy home life. And that makes me nervous...
...said Mitch, apparently persuaded by his mother, had written a letter declaring that he did not want the piece to air and that it violated his attorney-client privileges. When Mitch's mother refused to take Furth's call, Furth says he decided to ask the network to yank its story...
Then, alas, they all head for a submerged "habitat" on the ocean floor, yank on their wet suits and start poking around the wreck. And the standard scare scenes start occurring on a more or less predictable schedule--leaks, explosions, monsters popping out of the dark depths--with a more or less predictable effect on the health, mental and physical, of the intruders, not to mention the quality of the dialogue, which deteriorates largely to murmured suspicions and warning shouts...
Ninety minutes later, minus three minutes, I'm standing in subzero conditions outside Holden Chapel. I shake off my jacket and yank off my shorts, and the canvas is unveiled to a motley audience of screaming, shivering students in several stages of undress. Most are too busy to notice me. The men, scattered around the clearing, are undressing clumsily and pumping their fists with alternating wicked grins and nervous glances. The women, gathered in small circles and slowly peeling off one piece after another, smile hesitantly at each other, their arms folded across their chests in symbolic gestures of modesty...
...figures on the rise were those for bankruptcies, unemployment and suicides. National confidence congealed into a deep gloom as headlines warned of the coming "Great Depression." The government that for so many decades guided the economy with an iron hand is floundering, seemingly at a loss for ways to yank the country out of its tailspin. Kazumi Ehara, an auto salesman in suburban Tokyo, speaks for many of his countrymen when he says, "The Japanese people have been told repeatedly by the government that the economy will get better, only to be betrayed. I can no longer trust them...