This really shouldn't require that much hair-pulling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yay!] Reference

After 2+ years of hair-pulling work, I finally did it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Chiropractic Editing] Reference

That could lead to some hair-pulling and bitch-slapping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Draft Me.] Reference

I should make that deadline without too much hair-pulling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eeeeek!] Reference

Mottau's minor was an unsportsmanlike penalty for hair-pulling.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

It's kind of a wild show, hair-pulling, table-tossing kind of show.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2009] Reference

What could make these manly men turn into hair-pulling schoolgirls?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-03-14] Reference

Writing a book is usually a long, hair-pulling affair for the author.    From Wordnik.com.  [9 Non-Writers Who Influenced Literary History] Reference

This leads to a hair-pulling brawl between Ali Larter and Ms. Knowles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Blankenship: The Seven Least Essential Movies of the Next Seven Weeks] Reference

Tonight, the elbowing, kicking, hair-pulling mean girl soccer player speaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2009] Reference

It has a warm sound and is nice to play, with no nasty hair-pulling incidents.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Harmonicas « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference

It actually came to hair-pulling in the public gardens on one notable occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Valor]

I only ever witnessed pinching, hair-pulling, biting and the ubiquitous bumping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man bites sportsman] Reference

The media would be hot to watch a hair-pulling match between two Olympic contenders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Achille's Choice]

After a bloody, hair-pulling fight, I managed to land the much-coveted role of "Maria.".    From Wordnik.com.  [David Dean Bottrell: Point Of Pride] Reference

ANDERSON: Well, after a lot of debating, name-calling, hair-pulling - it got pretty ugly.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2007] Reference

I guess the major hair-pulling aspect of the whole ordeal is the coordination of everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday Rant - Wedding Wackiness] Reference

Watching the nightly news last night was a hair-pulling experience -- even more than normal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Cohen: Being a TV Expert Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry] Reference

They'd had a real bang-up fight, those two, a hair-pulling, eye-gouging, crockery-throwing fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waste Lands]

I never did think I could forgive 'em all -- so mean they was to me -- and the hair-pulling and all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

Besides which, if she got to Elayne and began hair-pulling over Rand, or worse, stuck a knife in her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of Chaos]

Those looking for a shouting, screeching, hair-pulling contest from Jim Webb are bound to be disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midterm Roundup] Reference

After much thought and deliberation (and a fair bit of hair-pulling) I give you my top 10 classic children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Serle: Top 10 Classic Children's Books] Reference

Bukowski, I would go screaming, hair-pulling mad i I think no one could survive that terrifying ordeal three times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poland]

After much thought and deliberation (and a fair bit of hair-pulling) I give you my top 10 classic children's books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Serle: Top 10 Classic Children's Books] Reference

Also, they had me at a disadvantage, and, what of the scratching and hair-pulling I received, I was glad to retreat.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XV] Reference

After some mean name-calling and hair-pulling in the schoolyard, Judy and Scooter are sent for a really long time out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: Politics and Power] Reference

It wasn't the news that prompted my hair-pulling (who doesn't know Iraq's a disaster?) -- but the way it was reported.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Cohen: Being a TV Expert Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry] Reference

So, after much thought and deliberation (and a fair bit of hair-pulling) I give you my top 10 classic children's books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Serle: Top 10 Classic Children's Books] Reference

Modem warriors never have to get into 6 a.m. hair-pulling fights outside Wal-Mart to get one of those gregarious fur balls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Xmas.Com] Reference

"Before you stage the hair-pulling contest," he said, "would you mind telling us poor benighted males what it is all about?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference

Oh sure, there'll still be fist fights and shoving matches and hair-pulling and stuff like that, but it sure beats getting shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference