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Word: pulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark screen the words appear: "A G-String Enterprise." Called Pull My Daisy, the film is written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, the least dreary of the Beat writers. The cast is drawn from the highest level of Beat society; Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky all play themselves. As a result, the first pure-Beat movie gives an authentic impression of beatnik habits and tastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENDSVILLE: Zen-Hur | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...answer the door," says Kerouac for the mother. The little boy opens the door. Enter Poets Ginsberg and Corso. They drink beer and wine, smoke marijuana, look out the window, where "90-year-old men are being run over by gasoline trucks." The audience now knows that Pull My Daisy is not just another she-bugs-me, she-bugs-me-not story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENDSVILLE: Zen-Hur | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...would be for you to withdraw from Longju" on India's northeastern frontier, and pledging that Indian troops would not then reoccupy the border post. As for Ladakh, in Kashmir, where the Chinese have seized some 9,000 square miles of Indian territory, Nehru proposed that Indian troops pull back to the west of the line that China claims is the boundary, while Chinese troops retire to the east of the line claimed by India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Letter for Chou | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...view of the intricate mayhem of line play. They know what they are seeing. "Chicago's hittin' inside the tackles, and Frisco's stacking the defense inside," complained one end zoner at the game eventually won by the Bears, 14-3. "Look at those corner linebackers pull in, and how close the tackles up front are playing! I mean, how can you run through that ton of beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...group plans to use the Stadium, or an alternative, until its proposed permanent home is built in Newton, a project that Sullivan also heads. However, if the Harvard Athletic Association expressed concern "that we would stay for two years, then pull out, we would be glad to continue use of the Stadium as long as the HAA wished...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Pro Football Team Head Calls Stadium First Aim | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

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