Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the U.S. public. In a sense that Nixon did not quite state, it does represent a form of "defeatism"-a widespread feeling that there is no clear way of forcing a peace settlement from Hanoi, but that the killing must stop and therefore the U.S. must pull out. On the other extreme, Nixon's plea for unity, while based on the valid notion that the war's real battleground has shifted to the field of U.S. public opinion, rests on the assumption that if the allies just hang on in South Viet Nam, the Communists will...
Still out of uniform is starting right wing Russ Bell. The sophomore lineman, sidelined earlier by tonsilitis, played in the Williams game long enough to pull a groin muscle. Solomon Gomez, who has started at both halfback and wing, will fill the vacancy at outside right...
Holy Cross scored a try on the first blocked kick, converted to pull within a point, then exploded within the next two minutes for another. A third put the match out of reach...
...headed out of town and soon were cruising along roads so narrow two cars meeting could not pass. At every hundred yards or so there were spaces where you could pull off the road to let the other...
Fearful of influencing the votes, Germany's polling organizations agreed to stop releasing results six weeks before election day. Even so, enough figures have leaked out to show that the Socialists may pull anywhere from 39% to 46% of the vote, v. 40% to 44% for the Christian Democrats. The fading Free Democrats will probably draw less than the 9.5% that they polled in 1965, while the ultra-rightist National Democrats (see following story) may draw 5%. The Communists will undoubtedly fall short of the 5% necessary for a party to win representation in the Bundestag...