She'd brought a piece of two-by-four, and, with a rock as a fulcrum, set to work levering the huge animal off the lip of the coulee.
In the choice condition, mice could either work (lever-press) for sucrose pellets or eat standard chow freely available.
Anyone can work the levers or play the pipes.
Start near the valve and work the levers around in opposite directions.
By the time of Newt Gingrich's Contract With America, Mr. Abramoff and his allies were poised to work the levers of power.
The employer is the government, and the responsibility of its 17,000 employees here has been to work the levers of Britain's expansive welfare state.
In the Senate, Democrats are still learning to work the levers of power after more than 40 years in the minority, and Senator Malcolm A. Smith, the majority leader, is consumed with keeping his fractious caucus together.
In particular, they say he is a sophisticated pol who knows how to work the levers of power behind the scenes, while still maintaining a conservative public image that has allowed him to avoid getting "primaried" by more conservative challengers in election years.
According to Pappus of Alexandria, Archimedes' work on levers caused him to remark: "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth".
Next he asked if James wanted to help him work the levers on the side of the flatbed so that he could haul our minivan up onto the truck.
And before lowering our big, gay minivan into the parking lot of the auto shop, he stopped to put his gloves on our daughter so she could work the levers this time, sending her into a spiral of rapture.
