Word: pull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Should we pull our forces in close to specific populated enclaves in order to improve theoretically the security of those areas, we would make a de facto partition of the country, similar to what has happened in Laos. It is a defeatist strategy, since the enemy always has the initiative. The only sound reason I know to adopt such a strategy in Viet Nam would be as a prelude to withdrawal from the country...
...crews traded power tens all the way down the course, but the big Red and Blue oarsmen could not shake the tenacious Crimson. It was extremely close throughout the race, and only with about 25 strokes to go did Penn pull out in front for good...
...tries to shut it. Some demonstrators grab him. I yell let that cop go, partly because I feel sorry for the cop and partly because I know that the nightsticks will start to flagellate on our heads, which indeed they do. One of my friends goes down and I pull him out. He's on adrenalin now and tries to get back at the cops but I hold him, because I hit a cop at Whitehall and I wished I hadn't very shortly thereafter. After the usual hassle order is restored and the cops let Rudd mount a dirt...
Levin and Jarvis trailed 5-4 in the opening set and needed two consecutive service breaks to pull it out of the fire. They captured the second set in routine fashion...
...Knack is such an ingenuously nice play, expressing all the right sentiments, that you root hard for it to pull you in. To watch it stumble around is a terrible disappointment; hopefully, some of the stumbling can be corrected before it ends its week-long...