Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under conventional surgery for periodontal disease, dentists pull the gums back to expose the underlying bone, cleanse the area and replace the gums at a level that covers more of the diseased tooth, Williams said, adding the operation "is not very popular with patients...
Mike Flanagan popped up Willie Stargell with two out in the top of the 9th and the tying run on third to pull out a 5-4 victory for the Orioles in the first game of the World Series...
Parker moved to third on Bill Robinson's groundout, bringing up Stargell, who had homered in the 8th to pull Pittsburgh within...
Greenspan, who as chief economist in the Ford Administration devised the measures that helped pull inflation down from 12.2% in 1974 to 4.8% when Jimmy Carter took office, is the most confident of the board members that stringent fiscal and monetary policies alone can work again. He predicts that if a firm hand is kept on the economy and the political leaders avoid the temptation to stimulate growth just to get elected, inflation will decline to perhaps 6% in 1981. No matter how high the cost of curbing the price plague, concludes Greenspan, some unpleasant medicine taken now will...
...Svay Rieng province, jutted into Viet Nam to within only 33 miles of Saigon. Farther north was an area code-named the Fishhook. No one around the table questioned the consequences of a Communist takeover of Cambodia. If Cambodia collapsed, we would be even harder pressed to pull out unilaterally; if we accepted any of the other options, we would be charged with "expanding the war." There was no middle ground...