Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history. The interest is in observation rather than in literary pomp. Audience's casual observations, however, can carry it astray. Donald Van Eman sets up a paradigm only so as to have an excuse for commenting on several Westerns; he wanders all over the lot and then attempts to pull a point...
...obvious cause of this discontent was the growing economic crisis (TIME, May 13), which has forced the ever-hungry Chinese masses to pull their belts in yet another notch. Mao, however, chose to blame it on the fact that the Chinese Communist Party, more than 60% of whose 12 million members have come in since the Reds came to power, has grown fat and arrogant in office. The remedy, he announced sternly, was for bureaucrats to stop ignoring his year-old slogan, "Let all flowers bloom together, let rival schools of thought contend." Bureaucrats should get out and mix with...
...condition of the athletes and gave predictions of noted authorities on the outcome of the nine-event meeting. President Hunter of the Cambridge University Athletic Club was quoted, "The meeting promises to be a keen struggle. The Americans will probably win the sprints, and we ought to pull off the long events, as it is well known that the Americans seldom run a good long race...
...about Manhattan TV personality of the season (TIME, Jan. 7). On the basis of his first two Sunday night shows on ABC, the U.S. may well wonder what all the talk was about. Mike Wallace so far is disproving the skeptics who predicted that network TV would make him pull his punches. But in flailing at setups, Wallace is displaying little more than an overeager, poorly calculated striving for sensation...
Members of a surveying crew began measuring these homes recently and one of the men employed said that the purpose of these measurements was to "tell how many houses they have to pull out for the new dorms...