Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN Winthrop Rockefeller and the -State of Arkansas got together four years ago, things began to happen in the lives of both. By persuading Arkansans to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and lure in new industry, Rockefeller and the industrial commission he heads are working an economic revolution in the Razorback State. In the doing, the one-time playboy has found a cause-and a home. See BUSINESS, Arkansas Catalyst...
...open to conjecture whether the HDC has increased its ticket costs in following years to pull itself out of that morass of red. But this increase is not limited to the HDC, since smaller groups in the University have followed the rise up, indeed often surpassing the HDC in excessive admission charges...
Kidron's announcement was reported by sources close to the delegation to mean Israel is preparing to pull her troops back from the Gulf of Aqua and the Gaza Strip...
...professor, the football player, and in between, the football player's girl, create a novelty which counteracts the trite moral issue. The girl is especially startling, one of those rare fictional characters whom you have met somewhere before. The intensity which Nemerov generates around these people can well pull the reader through the book in a single sitting, if he overcomes the slow start...
...Monkey Wife, first published in 1930, Collier wrote an improper parable to indicate his preferences and, incidentally, to pull man's leg. It has since become a minor classic in his own special fiction-fantasy style, and belongs on the same shelf as Swift's Houyhnhnms, Karel Capek's newts, and with all those who like to move to the other side of the zoo bars the better to observe mankind. Its reissue now is a lively event in a dull publishing season...