Word: pulling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...these are hooks with barbs, the kind that made Elvis Costello's reputation, but Mann's pithy lyrics have a clarity and focus that Elvis often seems to lack the discipline to achieve. Even those put off by Mann's querulous tone would be hard-pressed to deny the pull of "Red Vines," and with "Ghost World" she puts down her dukes long enough to reveal her tender side...
...Students pulled the fire alarm, and police and fire units responded. The Cambridge Fire Department used hooks and pikes to pull down more of the ceiling while the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) shut down the building...
...their cases. Nearly the second he'd finished giving the two-minute introduction to what in a perfect world would be a symphony of questions about tax rates, fairness and Gore's meager plans, there came a different chorus. Did they know about the RATS wording? No. Would they pull the ad? It was coming out of the normal rotation today anyway, a response about five Americans outside the ad community understands...
That night they hike to Manhattan's East Side, where they gather a few spoonfuls of earth to unite with the earth back home. Using interlinked belts and a pot, they pull up a sample of East River water to bless. Manhattan thrums at their backs, and they say they can feel the strength of the river. "Sumac. Sumac. Sumac," says Don Martin. "Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful...
...gaffe, is in play after all. At the heart of the struggle is the McCollum-Nelson contest. It could determine nothing less than whether Democrats can thwart Republican hegemony in a burgeoning, bellwether state that has the nation's fourth largest number of electoral votes (25) and help Gore pull off a coup against the Bush dynasty that might tip the presidential race...