Word: pulling
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...York back to his home state nearly three years ago for this election, has been on the defensive from the start, as Coleman has mined all sorts of offensive lines from thousands of jokes the comedian has told over his 57 years. "It's uncharted territory," says Franken. "They pull out a bit about a speech to Hartford Technical College, which is a made-up school. The bit was me pretending I was a jerk, but no one in their right mind would think I would actually say it. But they used it to say how much...
...peacekeepers," explains Russian Sergeant Vasili Schevchenko, from Stavropol, dragging on a cigarette and eyeing the aid workers and journalists wanting to get through. "All we want is peace." He does not know what is causing the big plume of smoke in Gori, he says. When will the Russians pull back? "We are just taking orders," he growls...
...system of turbulators, or tripwires, that wrap around the chest and back and disrupt, or trip, the flow of water down the body. This was significant because in previous attempts to reduce drag, the water would run quickly down the body and then form an eddy that would literally pull the swimmer backwards. So, in effect, the turbulators reduced total drag by increasing (slightly) the amount of friction on the surface of the body...
...undeniably older) readers will take to a video comic book from him. "In a pop-cult sense, I'm over," he says matter-of-factly. "But take someone like Stephenie Meyer. The kids love her, and they spend huge amounts of time on the Web. If she were to pull out a vignette from those novels and put it online like we're doing, that baby would go viral. There's no question about...
...interested in knowing whether Phelps can make [winning eight gold medals]," said Xuezhu Wen, a spectator from Beijing. "I'm not sure [if he can], but I wish all the best to him." After the relay performance, Phelps' American fans were more optimistic. "I think he can probably pull it off," said Ethan Paulson of San Diego. "He got one more today." Now he just needs to do it six more times...