Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Bethesda. Chemists benefit from a similar service in Columbus, Ohio, where articles on their specialty are abstracted and indexed by computer; the "express-indexes" are sold by subscription. Bookless Colleges. The next step after bibliographical control is retrieval of information itself. Computers cannot yet actually "read" documents and pull out the relevant parts. They can, however, select copies of entire documents. The most advanced example of this technique is the CIA's "Walnut" system, by which an 8-in. by 14-in. page of information is reduced to a microscopic image; any one of 990,000 images...
Backs to the Sea. The marines' object was to trap the enemy between the river (see map) and the sea, and they used every trick in the book to pull it off. One company of leather necks crossed the river in LTVs to form a blocking force from the north.Two more companies made an amphibious landing on the peninsula'ssouthern most coast, blocking off the south. At the same time, three other companies were landed by helicopter in paddy-fields at the back of the peninsula to the west. With their backs to the sea, the Viet Cong...
...Jicky amused themselves by heaving buckets of water over the wall at the swarms of peepers and paparazzi, while the bodyguards handled the beach detail and the dogs swam out to bite the swimmers treading water offshore. About the only bardolators getting any compassion were the prurient yachtsmen, who pulled abreast of Bardot's bastion and got so engrossed in the view from the bridge that they drifted hard aground on the reef in front of the house. Every few days, Brigitte would wearily telephone Saint-Tropez Rescue Captain Jean Des-pas: "Another boat is on the rocks. Would...
...there. And I regret the extent to which we have become committed-particularly because we are committed alone. I don't think we can continue to go it alone indefinitely. I continue to think that others will help us in Viet Nam. We can't pull...
...that daily wafts over Beverly Hills struck such a sour note with Violinist Jascha Heifetz that he had his lawyer write up a complaint. Then, too, the trail of the ice cream man is apt to be a messy one. Observes a Chicago mother of four: "When those trucks pull away, my front lawn looks like a garbage dump. I break my back every day just picking up sticky wrappers...