把柄: handle, information that can be used against sb...
拉: to pull, to play (a bowed instrument), to drag, to draw, to chat, (coll.) to empty one's bowels...
新式: new style, latest type...
宣读: to read out loud to an audience, a prepared speech (e.g. to a party conference)...
地: earth, ground, field, place, land...
工作量: workload, volume of work...
无赖: hoodlum, rascal, rogue, rascally, scoundrelly...
往日: former days, the past...