Mr. Kurson uses letters, interviews and the story of one guilt-stricken but lucky German crew member (yanked off the sub at the last minute for medical reasons) to construct these scenes without embroidering the truth.
In that account he mentions that soon after the costumes were designed, the creative team heard about a gang fight in Nyack, N.Y., that was triggered when one member yanked off the colored bandanna a rival gang member's girlfriend was wearing.
The Republican party, whose members have yanked the welcome mat out from under the feet of too many groups, should perhaps consider whether a strategy of alienation is a winning one.
Crew members Tuesday yanked a rip line to open a section at the top of the blimp's big gas bag, known as an envelope.
Through the techniques of video animation, the film's pixilated so-called cast members take to yanking on one another, yielding an effect resembling that of hot mozzarella as pizza slices are pulled apart.
They drew the curtains around the room, so nonscientific crew members could not see in, and yanked the satellite uplink offline, so no one could leak the news.
One crew member said that yanking the shoes off the feet of the suspect, Richard C. Reid, and bringing them into the American Airlines cockpit "was the dumbest thing I ever did".
Another white supremacist group, Vanguard America, was yanked offline by WordPress after its members rallied in Charlottesville.
Dominguez met with his lawyers this week, making them the newest cast members in a performance that could end with the protagonist being yanked offstage.
In search of the bombers, Marines killed five young men yanked from a car near the explosion and then killed 19 family members in three nearby houses.
But the members of the U.A.W., partly on their own behalf and partly on the behalf of their employers, yanked me back in time.
