Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farther we go with Viet Nam, the worse off we are. It may cost a great loss of face to pull out now, but the loss will be much greater if we are forced out -which is inevitable...
...Pakistani Ambassador Ghulam Ahmed. Arriving 15 minutes late, they found the room divided: Algeria, Austria and Niger to one side, wives to the other. While Lloyd Hand watched approvingly, it took his wife, gowned in black chiffon, no more than 30 seconds to integrate the all-male group, pull the party together in one wide, admiring circle around...
...console in the orchestra pit. To open the second act he played a mixture of electronic music and voices shouting "the absurdities of life," alternately ricocheting the sounds through eight speakers ringing the auditorium. In the final minutes, Nono's tape machine broke down, and he had to pull the tape through by hand. At performance's end he stood knee-deep in tangled tape like a partially unraveled mummy...
...novel that starts with the map of an imaginary tropical island makes a delicious promise of enchantment-as every reader knows who ever pored over the frontispiece chart in Treasure Island. Novelist Herman Wouk knows the pull of that enchantment. Six years ago, he fled the Manhattan theatrical and literary world, scene of his last two books (Youngblood Hawke and Marjorie Morningstar), and took his family to live in the Virgin Islands. His new novel, set in the Caribbean, begins enticingly with...
Princeton has a couple of players who could pull some big upsets. Frank Salterthwaite and Pete Svastich are at times erratic, but when they're hot, it means trouble for even the best. Svastich blitzed top dog Poor earlier in the year...