Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bingo's overnight success fits right in with TV's new rage for parlor games, which are cheap to produce and pull in good ratings. This week NBC will replace its Arlene Francis Show with a new game called Dough-Re-Mi. CBS is planning to put on Win-Go instead of The Eve Arden Show, will switch from Dick and the Duchess to Lucky Dollar, is also grooming three other games...
While British newspapers pull in their belts, women's magazines are popping out of their girdles. On Fleet Street last week the national dailies smarted under circulation losses totaling more than 1,000,000 a day since they boosted prices to tuppence ha'penny (3?) last October. Sunday papers and general-circulation magazines dropped 4,000,000 weekly in the same period. By contrast. Britain's women's magazines are faring better than ever...
...burn their fuel only as fast as their pumps, which must be kept light, can deliver it to the combustion chamber. This limitation keeps the thrust comparatively low, and low thrust means a long burning time. Thus, a heavy load of fuel is carried to high altitude against the pull of gravitation before it is burned and its energy turned into speed...
...specially assigned teachers to prepare for college entrance and practical lab work. Said Minister Billères: "You are free to accept or not." Chemistry Whiz Pierre needed no time for qualitative or quantitative analysis. "I accept," said he. "This will allow me to catch up. Then I can pull ahead...
...home his cut of a $5,600 jackpot, Brain must correctly answer a series of questions spread over four weeks. If he misses, the scene quickly shifts to a race track, a gymnasium or another studio, where Brawn, a topflight French athlete or even a whole team, has to pull off some spectacular physical feat to keep the game going...