Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seconds before being shredded into a thousand souvenirs. The boys didn't care which goalposts they took. Just so they were white and standing was all that mattered. The cops in blue guarding them just sort of disappeared. Maybe they were trampled into the ground, maybe they helped pull down the posts. It was hard to tell...
...pleasures of rye whiskey. When he also turns out to be pretty much of a goon around the ladies, he loses his wife. Penitent and thirsty, Mr. Dailey proceeds to booze himself right smack into Bellvue. This kind of involved business takes a lot of heavy weepy acting to pull off and Dan Dailey simply can't do if. The result is embarrassing, both to Mr. Dailey and to the audience. It is particularly bad in view of the fact that his spin through the bistros cuts the number of dances assigned him to a minimum...
Betty Grable, looking sober as John Foster Dulles throughout, inherits the dancing by default. She's got a walk that would keep any normal male supremely happy for two reels. But it takes more than a wiggle to pull you through that long third reel...
...igth Century. Bernabé was an outlaw in the Nicaraguan town of Rivas, and he loved cockfighting and roistering even more than Tacho does. He was so handsome, says Tacho, that when he played the guitar, women shivered and swooned. "He could put himself in a yoke and pull like an ox." In a fight over a rooster, says Tacho proudly, Bernabé grabbed a machete and killed 20 men. But a traitor betrayed him. "They hanged Uncle Bernabé," Tacho sighs. "Remembering him, I always try now to avoid provocation. God knows, nobody wishes less bloodshed than...
Yesterday afternoon the Jayvee football team saw how the other half--the winning half--lives. Suddenly catching fire in the second and third quarters to pour across three touchdowns, the Jayvees hung on through a fourth stanza barrage of Brown desperation passes to pull out their first major win of the campaign. The score was Harvard 18, Brown...