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Word: pulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore Tom Yohe will probably get the nod at quarterback for the Crimson. Yohe--who left the Princeton game two weeks ago with a groin pull--watched from the sidelines last weekend as senior David Landau guided Harvard in its 31-19 loss to Brown. Landau completed 10 of 22 passes for 118 yards but threw an interception and fumbled three times...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Gridders to Tackle Alert Minutemen | 11/8/1986 | See Source »

THREE YOUNG MEN, their faces painted with geometrical designs, were lying in the rubble of what was to be a life-size papier-mache cow, wailing loudly, "La vaca es muerta!," while two policemen attempted to pull them to their feet. People were spinning around ecstatically to a Jimi Hendrix guitar riff. A girl stops short: "I'm tripping," she says, her eyes dilated and staring at an image of a dragon overhead...

Author: By Susan L. Kelly, | Title: Milking Sacred Cows | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...Robertson tried his best to look unruffled, but the charge rankled. Did the famed televangelist, as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in 1951, ask his father, then a U.S. Senator from Virginia, to use his pull to help the young man avoid combat duty in Korea? After fielding reporters' questions about the allegation, Robertson last week launched a counterattack. He filed two libel suits for $35 million each in Washington federal court against his accusers, former Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey Jr. and Democratic Congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana. "I may become a candidate for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Combat Zone:Pat Robertson sues for libel | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...achieved what we set out to do, in most cases," said Harvard Coach Jape Shattuck, whose squad tallied midway through the second half to cut a two-goal deficit in half, but was unable to pull even before the clock...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Terriers Nip Men Booters, 2-1; Crimson Comeback Bid Clipped | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

That Cohen and his friends are willing to treat Blacks unequally not only violates the law, but does not bode well for the future of democratic society. Their views are symptomatic of a growing tendency to deny that Blacks are full-fledged citizens since they have failed to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and "make it" in white middle class society...

Author: By Joshua H. Henkin, | Title: White Man's Jewelry | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

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