Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American folk song Captain Olaf Kaldefoss does not have a mule to pull his boat through the Erie Canal. He has a pair of 25-year-old diesel engines, one of which has just been overhauled. But he is confident that they can move his craft, the 256-ft. M.V. Day Peckinpaugh, through the canal at a stately, steady speed of 8 m.p.h., and so is the ship's engineer, a compact, muscular fellow named Dan Sauvey. So, with the sun just clearing the horizon and beginning to burn off the mist shrouding the upstate New York city...
...there was any modulation of Republican joy, and any consolation for Democrats, it was that the President did not demonstrate much of a coattail pull. The G.O.P. retained control of the Senate as expected, but suffered a net loss of two seats from its pre-election 55-to-45 majority. In the House, Republicans did not come close to recapturing the 26 seats they lost to Democrats in the 1982 midterm election; Wednesday-morning projections gave them a net gain of ten to 15. That would not only keep the Democrats in control of the lower chamber; it might deny...
...Lebanon ("The forget period," said one of the President's men, "is about six weeks in American life. We have to be out before June"). Only Shultz had resisted a pullout ("A very stubborn man," said Weinberger). The emergency conference lasted two hours. Reagan decided that Sunday evening: pull out, now, as fast as possible. Then he was off for a vacation at his California ranch, and the decision had been made...
...next week, at pean, Yale rebounded from a 17-0 deficit to pull withi a field goal of the league champions at 24-21, before failing to the Quakers...
...some ways, the most impressive acting comes from the "troupe," the group of inmates who do not have specific roles in Sade's play, but behave as a sort of raving chorus. Like naughty children, they play leapfrog, poke each other's middles, and pull each other's hair. They pick at their noses and masturbate, they jeer at actors who forget their lines...