Word: pull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After losing to Brown 9-1 in the first game yesterday in Providence, R.I., the Harvard softball team managed to pull out a thrilling come-from-behind extra-inning 6-5 victory over the Bears to maintain its first-place standing in the Ivy League race...
After going down 4-0 in Game One, freshman reliever Pete Rau pitched six scoreless innings and was backed by a trio of homers from the Harvard hitters to pull the Crimson (9-16 overall, 3-9 EIBL) even with the Cadets...
After two scoreless innings, junior Tom Konjoyan and sophomore Jay Jakimczyk connected for a home run apiece in the third to pull the Crimson within two runs...
...April 5, Viet Nam finally announced that it would pull its troops out of Kampuchea by the end of September, leaving behind a pro-Hanoi regime. The decision presented the Bush Administration with a chance to turn, unambiguously, to preventing the Khmer Rouge from moving into power. Instead, the Administration is now giving priority to bringing down the Communist regime that the Vietnamese installed in Phnom Penh -- though that regime seems to be rebuilding the country...
What is, alas, all but inevitable is more civil war after the Vietnamese pull out. With their record, the Khmer Rouge can hardly be expected to submit to elections or to participate in a peaceful democracy. If they and the non- Communists remain aligned against the Phnom Penh leaders, the three- against-one combination will probably end in the defeat of the odd faction out; that will allow the Khmer Rouge to turn their guns on the other...