Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-four of the Princetons, accompanied by 20 trainers, coaches, managers, and well-wishers, left the New Jersey hamlet early this morning and will pull into Back Bay at 2:45 o'clock. A quick dash to Cambridge will get them onto Soldiers Field by the 4:30 o'clock deadline, before darkness blots out the last-minute warm-up in the unfamiliar surroundnigs...
...public favor, portly (195 Ibs.) Colonel Stoopnagle, 50, isn't quite sure how it happened. "It's funny," he says; "they just started laughing again. And this time they laugh right out loud-in the studio. Kinda scared me at first. I remember when they'd pull a long face at my act, and wouldn't double-take until they were at least three blocks away from the station...
...self, New York's late Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia wanted to start a people's opera. Four years ago he did - the non-profit New York City Opera Company -and hired an unsung director named Laszlo Halasz to run it: he was the only applicant who had no pull. But he id have push - enough push to start a small operatic revolution...
...every game, for so long as they were unbeaten, every team was pointing for them. Michigan's team was decidedly superstitious about their winning ways. At training table, no one would think of changing his seating order. In the locker room, players remembered which teammate had helped pull their jerseys down over their shoulder pads before the first game of the season, and made sure that the same man did it every game. The squad's biggest superstition: by unspoken agreement, no one ever mentioned the words that everyone thought about most: the Rose Bowl...
...hormone treatments will not help. They tried this treatment on 30 patients and in most cases it worked; in more complicated cases, the psychiatrists concluded that middle age may plunge a man into so profound a mental and emotional depression that nothing short of psychiatry or shock treatments will pull...