Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Clinton Anderson introduced him to the throng as "A man I firmly believe will be the next President of the U.S." Johnson lived up to the billing. Said he, aiming at the Republican line on the budget: "There are two ways to remain fiscally solvent. One is to pull in, shrink back, scrimp and do nothing except sit in a rockin' chair. The other is to stand, produce, work longer and harder." Said he of Dwight Eisenhower: "We are meeting tonight in the lingering twilight of the Great Crusade. And now there's nothing left...
...Antelope Valley realtors bad news is no news. They were convinced that the Gazette had betrayed their efforts to sell land, and they began a campaign to get Antelope Valley retailers to pull their ads out of the Gazette. Said an angry realtor: "If I were selling apples, I would not put the rotten ones on top of the barrel...
...Consumer worship: "The pull of the profitable middle accents the sameness in us all ... out of our riches has come a kind of poverty, the poverty of speed and saturation...
...Geisha Boy (Jerry Lewis; Paramount). Jerry Lewis stands glaring across the body of a sleeping blonde at a white rabbit. Jerry is a butterfingered magician who has all he can do to pull the rabbit out of a hat. How can he conceivably pull the thing out of a sleeping compartment without waking the dame (Marie McDonald) and rousing the rest of the passengers on the flight...
...indeed unusual when a movie arrives in this vicinity which has sufficient merit to pull veteran Western fans away from their early evening television vigils. Especially during reading and exam periods when the academic world weighs heavy on the undergraduate mind and the desire for Escape becomes greater each day, the Western assumes an even larger role in the Harvard community...