Word: pull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There cheap goals by Brown made the fourth quarter a disaster, as Harvard failed to produce the clutch scores it needed to pull out a victory. Engel, taking a great fed from Kilbreth, threw in the final Crimson goal just a minute before the gun -- but it was too late matter...
...current regime will undoubtedly appeal for U.S. support on the basis that, if elections were held, the Left would be powerful enough to win, end the monarchy, adopt neutrality as a policy, pull Greece out of NATO, and eventually drag the country into the Communist camp. Already an Army spokesman has stated that the new government would "observe Greece's commitment to NATO" and would "solve the problem of Cyprus without disregarding the rights of the Turkish minority." Both declarations were delivered for Washington's benefit...
...minutes Saturday, Harvard's team outplayed Cornell, the winner of 18 straight games. But a lacrosse game is 60 minutes long, and Cornell used those extra 15 minutes to the fullest, as they tallied six times to pull out a 10-8 victory over the Crimson...
...Harvard surge late in the game -- goals by Timberlake and Charley Ames -- was too little too late, as the Crimson stickmen couldn't recover from their third quarter letdown in time to pull off the victory...
...risen from rags to riches. In 1939, when he was 24, he started newspapering as an $18-a-week copy boy for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was promoted to clerk, then to reporter. Harry had nerve. He dug. He probed. He was brassy, tough, cocky. Harry had pull at city hall. With the help of a former assistant district attorney, he browsed freely through confidential files in the D.A.'s office to get leads for his searing exposes of rackets and corruption. By the 1950s, his byline appeared regularly; by last month, there was no dispute that...