Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restore calm, Lleras canceled the increase. To keep the calm, he will have to pull another miracle of statesmanship -a miracle that will build new industries to put Colombia's hungry manpower, currently growing at the rate of 70,000 a year, to work...
...going up and up and up," cries Lana Turner, who plays the Claudette Colbert part in this version, "and nobody's going to pull me down." Sadly her admirer (John Gavin) slouches away, and Lana goes up and up and up until she finds herself in a penthouse with a famous playwright (Dan O'Herlihy), and all of Manhattan at her feet-in Eastman Color. How happy she seems, but how miserable she really is. "Something,'' the heroine sighs, "is missing." Certainly not one soap-opera cliche is missing...
...concentration there is the low humidity: dry air increases the plastic's tendency to develop a charge of static electricity and adhere to anything around. After the bag covers a child's mouth and nose, he soon becomes too faint to coordinate his actions and pull away the sticky folds. Vomiting usually follows. Cause of death is believed to be inhalation of vomited matter, which blocks the air passages...
...junior varsity race, Penn took the lead at the start and gained a half length. The Crimson shell stuck with the Red and Blue boat for the next mile, but was unable to pull even...
Penn and the Crimson both took off rowing at a 42, with the varsity soon pulling three or four seats ahead. Sophomore stroke Perry Boyden then lowered the cadence to a 30--two strokes lower than Penn--and the Crimson began to pull away...