Word: pulling
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...Americans, as we know, are a tinkering breed, and in the early '50s a fellow named Bud Isaacs got the idea of hooking up a pedal that would pull a single string to a preset pitch while the instrument was being played, making the movement of the note part of the style. The first recording to feature this was 1953's "Slowly," by Webb Pierce, with Isaacs on steel, and the cat was out of the bag. More pedals were added, and then knee levers, which provided new ways to raise or lower the pitch of the strings...
...matter who sits in the Oval Office, we know there's a great risk in the Supreme Court," Ireland said. "We need to pull out all the stops to elect more women, more feminists, because if we don't send in reinforcements in two years, we'll be in a sorry state...
...After they ate a dessert of kunafeh, sweet semolina topped with shredded wheat and syrup, Peres and Arafat talked alone. By half past midnight, they had a deal. Arafat agreed to end the shooting--though not the stones and the Molotov cocktails. In return, Peres would persuade Barak to pull back some of Israel's tanks and troops from friction points in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...fact, whereas the Europeans started later than their American competitors, they could pull ahead before too long. Not only do they have four giant telescopes on one site, but they've also budgeted more money than anyone else for state-of-the-art light detectors...
...despite their interest and their hard work, they are finding fashion more challenging than they expected. "I thought if I showed up and was fashionable, they'd pass me," Venus admitted. Still, she got a 3.6 last year; Serena had a 3.4, which she has vowed to pull...