Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outfielder: "A low-ball hitter and an off-field hitter. No power; should not be played to pull. He is a good center fielder with a strong arm. A base runner. Every time he bends his left knee toward his right he is stealing." ¶On a pitcher: "Has major-league fast ball but is disturbing type on mound; looks like a mental case." ¶ On another pitcher: "Not recommended on present style. Has major-league equipment but is a Thomas Edison"-a baseball term for any player who is continually experimenting...
...Supernatural. Most of the characters in these stories are beginning to feel their age and, if they have not found religion, at least have been brushed by the supernatural. The title story deals with a former U.S. Army pilot, penniless in Paris, who refuses $25,000 to pull a job for a smuggler because of a superstitious hunch that the job would be fatal for him. When a less imaginative friend succeeds, the flyer knows that fear, and not a hunch, has dictated his refusal...
...make sharp cutbacks within the next year in the 100,000 U.S. servicemen now stationed in Japan, including a "prompt withdrawal of all U.S. ground combat forces," i.e., about 30,000 men of the Army. The 1st Cavalry Division, biggest U.S. combat group in the home islands, will pull out this summer. Probable destination: Korea. As Japan's new, 200,000-man defense force grows, Washington plans to make further reductions in the remaining 70,000-man U.S. force-for the most part Air Force and Navy personnel...
What they did was not done for profit or material success, for pleasure or power or selfishness. In fact, the whole effort made sense only as an attempt of people to pull together for someone else's child, on the principle of our common humanity...
Thus, echoing scores of editorials across the country, wrote New York Post Pundit Max Lerner last month when a gallant band of rescuers worked around the clock to pull seven-year-old Benny Hooper Jr. out of a well shaft at Manorville, L.I. (TIME, May 27). One of that gallant band was the Eastport volunteer fire department's physician. Dr. Joseph H. Kris. Called in by police, he stood by for almost 24 hours, supervising the piping of oxygen to the trapped...