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Word: pulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After dropping the second game, 15-9, Harvard came to life in the third game, rallying from 11-5 and 13-10 deficits to pull out a 16-14 decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tufts Trips Up Women Spikers, 3-1 | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

MAYBE THE CAMERA CREW for Kerouac should have taken lessons from the makers of "Pull My Daisy" a 20-minute film which precedes Kerouac at the Orson Welles. Written and narrated by Kerouac in the late 1950s, "Pull My Daisy" is a humorous day-in-the-life tale of a few Beatnik writers during an afternoon and evening of goofing...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Drab Documentary Misses the Beat | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...Pull My Daisy" gives a view of Kerouac from the inside, in his own jumbled form of narration. The feature film complements the shorter work because it looks at Kerouac from the outside--through the eyes of an objective biographer and through those of writers and artists who knew Kerouac best...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Drab Documentary Misses the Beat | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...failed to satisfy Washington, which called for an immediate pullback. After meeting in the White House with Samora M. Machel, the visiting leader of Mozambique, President Reagan also denounced South Africa's actions in that country. Viljoen eventually announced that his troops had disrupted SWAPO supply lines and would pull out of Angola over the weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Violations of Another Kind | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...movie's end, there is no resolution of plot or character--no perfect ending to be revealed by some bad movie critic. The minor miracle at film's end is merely the impossible cap to an implausible development of character and situation, something only a cute ET could pull...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: 'Creator' Botches Formula | 9/27/1985 | See Source »

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