Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard, whose record is now 4-0, went into the contest a strong favorite, but the surprising Bruin sextet capitalized on Harvard's miscues in the first two periods to pull out into a seemingly comfortable two goal lead in the final period...
...policies. Germany refuses to revalue the Deutsche Mark, and Germans applaud the victory over France. France refuses to devalue the franc, and De Gaulle envisions the nation's return to the head of the pack. If forced to devalue. France threatens a devaluation of such magnitude as to pull down other currencies with the franc. The U.S. dogmatically upholds the value of the dollar. The world has suffered three major monetary crises in the past year; yet nations still attempt patchwork measures that only temporarily ease their ills and then only at the expense of others...
...dissipated by the body. During this period, cell growth was retarded, producing thinner than normal segments on each fiber before normal growth resumed. Six or seven days later, when these weakened segments of fiber finally poked their way above the skin, they could be broken easily with a slight pull...
Orthodox surgery was considered far too risky. But Neurosurgeon Philipp M. Lippe, a former Air Force flight surgeon, recalled that centrifuges-the contraptions that spin pilots and astronauts in order to test their reaction to the pull of extra gravity-had occasionally been used in delicate eye operations. He wondered if the same process might not be used to force the bullet fragment within Barrios' brain into a safe spot in the soft tissue surrounding the upper ventricle. Lippe took the problem to NASA's nearby Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, where tests were made by whirling...
Today, nobody loses any hair under Segal's hands. In his perfected technique, hairdos are swathed in Saran Wrap before the plaster cloths are applied. In the case of nudes, Vaseline is used wherever the plaster might pull on body hair. But Segal can never cast the whole figure in one piece-a complete cast would cut off the body's pores from the outer air and might prove as lethal to the model as gold paint was to the hapless girl in Goldfinger...