Word: yanks
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Commuter Jeff Joll, a software equality insurance engineer and Kendall Square regular, says he gets “intense entertainment value from people trying to manipulate them. They yank it really hard...
...first months after its installation, the Pythagoras bells would frequently break when frustrated riders would yank too hard on the handle. Matisse, who was in charge of fixing the bells, recalls leaving notes on the handle explaining the problem...
...problem is that Royal, 52, whose partner Fran?ois Hollande is the Socialist Party Secretary, is solidifying her standing by espousing what many in the party leadership consider decidedly un-socialist, practically treasonous ideas. In recent weeks she has advocated a much tougher line on young delinquents. She wants to yank troublesome kids from middle school classes and put them in reform schools; withhold state family allowances from dysfunctional families until they take parenting classes, and even send teenage miscreants to military boot camp. Socialist voters, mindful of the youthful rampages last fall in the poor outlying housing projects and this...
...pretty indisputable. I taught constitutional law for ten years, nobody is more mindful of the importance of the courts, although I'm also mindful of the limits of the courts. One of the problems for the Democratic Party is we've been overly reliant on the courts to yank us out of some of our electoral problems. I have confidence we can win elections...
...Fitch has the right to sell whatever it wants, and young women are more than capable of deciding for themselves what is self-degrading and what is humorously self-expressive. The pressure that these 23 teenage “girl-cotters” recently created has caused Abercrombie to yank some of its more “creative” Attitude Tees from its shelves, including the notorious “Who Needs Brains When You Have These?” shirt. (Guess where the slogan was located on the garment.) Of course, the “girl-cotters?...