Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Before a man can fully embrace the future, he must be willing to endure a painful relinquishing of the past. In an honestly affecting portrait of an Irish émigré, Playwright Brian Friel depicts a young man caught between the pull of old memories and the beckoning of new hopes...
...carefully the statements of every public official and of every candidate for every office. Ask yourselves, 'Is he helping the cause of his country, or is he advancing the cause of himself? Is he trying to draw us together and unite our land, or is he trying to pull us apart to promote himself...
...Thailand's endowments that first attack the senses, opulent gifts of nature nurtured by a benign history. In the gentle air and lemony Siamese sunlight, rice, corn and coconut palms flourish, as do 28 kinds of bananas and 750 varieties of orchids. In the north, worker-elephants still pull the great teak logs from the forest with an efficiency no machine yet invented can match; mangoes, sugar and rubber plants thrive in the south. Along the great, glittering emerald rice fields of the fertile, canal-veined central plain where over a third of the 30 million Thais live, smiling...
...siding with the stronger. For all their genuine anti-Communist convictions, the Thais might well develop serious second thoughts the day the U.S. began to pull out of Saigon...
...University of Pennsylvania. John McGinn, an old Penn coxswain and now a scientist in General Electric's laboratories at Valley Forge, Pa., has invented an electronic gizmo that enables Penn Coach Joseph Burk to tell at a glance in practice which of his oarsmen are pulling their weight - and which aren't. Attached to the oarlocks, miniature dynamometers measure the pull on each oar, flash the results on a board of 32 lights - four for each crewman. If all four lights flash on, the oarsman is exerting 280 Ibs. of pressure. Three means 265 Ibs., two means...