Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divers, fighting the heavy ebb and flow of the sea, fastened the patch with bolts, some of them a foot long. Once a shark flashed toward Diver Maurice Simmons. "I kept yanking on the diving line and saying to myself, 'Oh, my God, won't they ever pull me up?' Then they started raising me, and all of a sudden the shark swam away. It took me about half a day before I could get up enough nerve to go back down again." Deir himself was working below decks when his acetylene torch sparked an explosion. Sent...
...from the outside out, now shaking their heads over what goes on and now smacking their lips, Playwrights Lawrence and Lee give their play a fair amount of story interest and shock value, while Actor Melvyn Douglas, with a brilliant impersonation, wins sympathy for their hero. But wherever the pull of the play is not purely factual it seems flagrantly fictional, particularly in a weak last act. It brings no insight to any of the questions it raises. It gets beneath none of the skin it flays. Nor does The Gang's All Here always jibe with the facts...
...ball, First Baseman Gil Hodges slipped ignominiously and sat down hard on the infield grass, while Sox runners scampered around the bases. Scouting reports had assured Dodger pitchers that Chicago's muscleman First Baseman Ted Kluszewski (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), 35, could no longer pull the home-run ball to right. Big Klu promptly pulled two homers to right, drove in five runs. Final score...
Before the five-mile varsity contest, the Crimson freshmen will face squads from B.U. and Providence in a three-mile race. Yardlings Ed Hamlin, Jim Bonnar, Lowell Davidson, and Glen Rogers should lead the Crimson to victory, but B.U., led by Bob Dias, could pull an upset...
...forces would give them a military advantage which might well tempt them into provoking limited peripheral conflicts without fear of nuclear retaliation. The next step, or possibly a concurrent one, according to Khrushchev, would be the removal of foreign troops from western and central Europe: the United States would pull back 3000 miles across an ocean; the Soviet Union would pull back several hundred miles across land...