Word: pulling
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Clutch Play III: Trailing, 14-7, Brown had driven to the Harvard 11-yd. line with 9:31 remaining in the second quarter. Rosenberg decided to pull out a trick play he had utilized successfully in the Holy Cross game the week before when QB Mike Lenkaitis handed off to Danny Clark running right and then slipped out into the left flat for an easy touchdown reception...
With the game tied, 5-5, Brown reeled off five unanswered goals to pull out the victory over the Crimson (14-12), which has suffered through several futile years of playing second-fiddle to Brown in New England water polo...
Rick Atkinson's epic of West Point's class of '66 is marked by such piercing incidents. A Washington Post reporter, he begins by following some 600 freshmen, ruddy and damp in their new gray wool uniforms. Loud harassment is the order of the day ("Pull that neck in, mister. You call that bracing?"). It has been this way since Thomas Jefferson founded the academy in 1802, and in the crowd of intimidated cadets the figures tend to blur -- until destiny selects them for service in Viet...
This is not to minimize the dazzling feats that the networks and their affiliates were able to pull off. Howard Stringer, the president of CBS Broadcast Group, was parking his car at Candlestick Park when the earthquake hit, and he subsequently spent hours searching for a working telephone or open airport. "It's remarkable that television got satellite feeds out at all, given that things weren't working even at a lower level of technology," he says. San Francisco's two dailies, also without power, had trouble making their deadlines with abbreviated editions, and newspapers across the country relied heavily...
...Pull out your white gloves, straighten up your bow tie, and shine up your spats because P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves Takes Charge has arrived at the pudding Theater...