Word: pulling
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...James Frey, on the night of October 24, 1992, pull up outside a bar in Granville, Ohio, in a white Mercury? Was he drunk and high on crack at the time? Did he jump the curb, bump a cop with his car, and then get dragged out screaming and beaten up by the police? Did he then go to rehab, write a book about it, inspire millions of readers and make a ton of money...
...distortion that's inevitable in any memoir: events are filtered through the author's memory, and then they're fuzzed even further by the inherently impressionistic nature of any literary medium. Short of the unexpected appearance of a Recording Angel, there isn't much a memoirist can do to pull aside that two-ply veil. But before we get lost in an epistemological fog, let's not forget that those distortions must be kept separate from the wilful deceptions of an author who's giving in to ulterior motives. Some falsehood comes with the territory of the memoirist; others must...
Unlike the departed Rogus, however, who was strictly a three-point specialist, Goffredo is more apt to pull up for a mid-range jumper or drive to the hoop to try to take advantage of his .917 free-throw percentage...
...bell while swinging and landed on the church roof. Approximately three years ago, a cable was connected to the clapper to secure it in place. Just in case this fails, there is an extra clapper waiting in the platform beneath the bell and rigging blocks underneath the bell to pull it up into place...
Before the bell was automated, a rope extended from the clapper up in the bell down into the basement of the building. Instead of climbing up to the bell, the sexton would pull with all his might on the rope and would often be carried up to the ceiling with the weight of the bell clapper...