Word: pulling
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...Then, he turned. Hussein's sister was being told the news. She kneeled before an older man, who was speaking softly to her, his face drawn, his eyes tortured. She cried out, "Hussein! Hussein!" in a long, shrill lament. She held her head in her hands and began to pull at her hijab while screaming out her brother's name. A young man tried to help Hussein's sister to her feet, but she couldn't bear to stand. Small children began to cry, and one little girl had a purple star sticker affixed to her forehead, a jarring symbol...
...street," the magazine quoted a Bombayite as saying. But as soon as the bombs went off, Bombayites stooped low to pick up anyone who had fallen in the street, and carried their blood-soaked bodies to hospital in their arms. People rushed out of the slums to pull victims out of blasted trains; they gave complete strangers rides home; and the hospitals had such a crush of people wanting to donate blood that they issued public pleas asking volunteers to stay away. In their darkest hour, Bombayites of all religions and classes became blood brothers. Readers Digest's editors should...
...Appetite But the jubilation of Sevilla and his colleagues may not last. Like many of the Med's fishermen, life has become far more precarious for them, as they struggle to compete against international companies. As the blistering afternoon sun beats down, the fishermen of Garrucha (pop. 8,000) pull their boats into the harbor with the day's catch, and gather in a café on the dockside. Over coffee they talk for hours. "Fuel prices have risen, and fish prices are really low. We wonder if it is worth it anymore," says Juan Cervantes, 55, who began fishing...
...this be the most disturbing novel of the year. The Ruins is the tale of a bunch of American tourists on a boozy Mexican vacation that becomes a fever dream of grisly horror. Smith (A Simple Plan) writes with psychological acuity and real beauty, yet he doesn't pull punches. To be more specific would just waste good dramatic tension. But seriously, it's just awful what happens to these poor people...
...part to die. We borrow from each other emotionally. And so if I know they don?t believe in this, all I?m going to see when I look at that page is I don?t believe in this, either. I told them, I won?t be able to pull this off in this atmosphere. I won?t be able to do it. I?ll make a bad movie. All I?ll see is the version of me that hasn?t figured this...