Word: pulling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder is the 3-m-tall Tower of Babel (1989), slung with flywheels that bring to life scores of tiny wooden figures that frantically turn handles, ring bells or pull each other's strings. From a high pulpit, a tiny Vladimir Lenin urges them on; below, a uniformed Joseph Stalin wields a bloody ax. Jakovskaya, a theater director, organized his mechanical marvels into a performance called Sharmanka (barrel organ), bathing the works in light, shadow and music, and handing...
...acidic British political commentator is a perfect biographer for the disputatious Founding Father. Eternally at war with whoever seemed inclined to pull the Republic into Britain's orbit, Jefferson could be scheming and hypocritical. Hitchens is not blind to the man's shortcomings, especially his readiness to tolerate slavery for the sake of domestic political advantage. But he credits Jefferson as a chief engineer of "the only revolution that still retains any power to inspire...
...readied ourselves, knowing that the only chance we had would be to run with Cambridge level off the start and try to fluster them into rowing with bad rhythm; if we let Cambridge get a lead, they were a talented and mature enough crew to pull away for good...
...Design-wise, there's just one thing that bothered me: because the adapter sits on top of the iPod, it covers up the Hold switch. When you pull out the adapter (or, generally speaking, when you pull anything out of the headphone jack), newer iPods automatically pause. This means that when you're listening to music and lift the adapter to flip the Hold switch, you end up pausing your music then locking your controls. The solution to this weird little riddle is to play your music first, hit the Hold switch second, then put the headphone adapter...
...Kasparov. After 16 games, he was three wins ahead and seemed so assured of victory that some visiting grand masters packed up and left for home. Suddenly Karpov, drawing on a hidden reserve of strength and taking advantage of blunders by Kasparov, won three games in a row to pull even, 9½-9½. It was an unprecedented string of victories so late in a championship match. "Kasparov is cracking," wrote Vladimir Pimonov, analyst for a Soviet chess journal. "He's fallen victim to the same problem that has plagued him in the past: overconfidence...