Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herbert Spencer shattered the Methodist faith he was born to. He taught for seven years at Yale before beginning a 29-year tenure on the Harvard faculty, retiring in 1943. He liked to moonlight from university teaching by lecturing at labor-union schools, because "workingmen don't pull their punches...
...state legislature after voicing his admiration of draft-card burners, and Simon Casady, 57, who was bounced as president of the California Democratic Council after expressing a similar viewpoint. The group hopes to raise $500,000 to support "carefully selected" candidates -meaning those who want a quick pull-out from Viet...
...distinction has been institutionalized to protect the club ideal of egaliarianism, Birge feels. "Intellection is banned because anything that tends to mark out one member from another creates hierarchies. Using your head can pull you one step above the next person. The guy they like is the one who can talk on any subject the other person brings...
...buttons will work, he said, but it can cause sores on the mother cow's udder after nursing. Various gouges and electric burners are also effective, but Hatch advocated a saw. "There may be lots of bleeding," he told students. "If there is, you can clamp the artery. Pull it out and take hold of it. It looks like a piece of spaghetti." Outside, the students went to work on eight calves. "Careful there now," Field Instructor John Kennedy coached. "Start your saw back a little more-that's right-in the hair...
Flying Cash Registers. To get his own flying cash registers into the air, Onassis has steered Olympic along a characteristic route. He bought the bankrupt line from the government in 1957, added new equipment and turned his first profit in 1963. Then, by threatening to pull out of the airline, he maneuvered the government into extending Olympic's monopoly status in Greece until 1986, and won a tax holiday until...