Word: yanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard: This unit, which was solid but not great last year, has matured into a group which covers the pass very well. Junior corner Glenn Jackson has six interceptions, and junior Derek Yank off has three picks on the other side...
WASHINGTON: There's no easy way out: if you want to squeeze into that size six, you'll have to sweat for it. TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman reports that the Food and Drug Administration's recommendation to yank the diet drugs Redux and fenfluramine off pharmacy shelves proves once again that working out and eating right is the safest way to lose the fat. "If you look at the history of diet pills, they've tended to start off with tremendous acclaim and then something goes wrong," she says. "Before it was amphetamines, which proved to be addictive...
Timothy McVeigh will make a statement at his formal sentencing tomorrow in Judge Matsch's Denver courtroom -- and it's likely to contain few kind words for Stephen Jones, who McVeigh wants the court to yank from his case. "He screwed up badly but I'm not bitter," McVeigh told the Buffalo News Tuesday. "I only want him off my appeal...
...They had made it a matter of honor that when asking citizens to tighten their belts, accept welfare reform or cut entitlements like Social Security, Congress had to make some sacrifices as well. The rebellion forced Gingrich to hold a series of meetings in mid-March to try to yank the rebels back in line. "We were all told we were immature and we needed to behave like a majority, not like children," says...
...evil. And the ever alert Salvador Dali managed to include a number of proto-Pop American images in his pictures when working in the U.S. Painted just after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his Melancholy Atomic and Uranic Idyll, 1945, has a bomber in it as well as the first Yank baseball player to turn up in a Surrealist picture...