Word: pulling
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...poetry of Rimbaud and the Beats, non-fiction on issues of the day - that graced the coffee tables of friends whose living-room couches he crashed on. "I began cramming my brain with all kinds of deep poems," he writes in Chronicles. "It seemed like I'd been pulling an empty wagon for a long time and now I was beginning to fill it up and would have to pull harder." He burrowed into the microfilm files of the New York Public Library to research the social issues he needed to know and wanted to write about. He hung around...
...size of a grain of rice. Here's roughly how it works: You hold really still for half an hour or so in a big machine made of a magnet and some computers. The magnet itself is big, heavy and expensive - not to mention so strong that it could pull on a paper clip with nearly 100 pounds of force. You're blasted with strong radio waves. The protons in your body absorb some radio waves, then they let some back out - like a crystal wine glass ringing after a great soprano sings at it. The machine "listens...
...felt really good and it felt smooth,” Boston said. “But it was definitely missing something. We can’t say we ran out of water. We had all the water that was necessary, we just couldn’t pull it through.”The second varsity, however, took advantage of every meter of water available to eek out a gold medal win—the boat’s fourth in five seasons. No. 1 Harvard, undefeated and untested in the dual season, fell back by as much as a length...
...appeared in a near-deadlock as the boats came into view. The Midshipmen pushed forward to claim second, but a bow ball battle between Harvard and Yale kept the third-place finisher in doubt even after the two boats slowed to a paddle. “I thought we pulled it out—we were inching up on them and we were pretty much even,” Aldrich said. “It was a nailbiter, and they took it from us.”The story was similar for the second varsity, which lost hold...
...results of Saturday's election to back him up, Nagin is in a much stronger position now to demand a greater role for himself, and New Orleans, in the recovery authority's decisions. "By the way, if it doesn't work," Stonecipher said, "Ray Nagin's going to pull an 'endorse Jindal' on them again next year. It's not like he doesn't hold some cards." Now it's just a question of how he plays them...