Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other in eight-hour, all-weather shifts. No one plane lands until another has become airborne. Dubbed "Looking Glass," the plane is manned by a crew that flies a random pattern within radar distance of SAC's Omaha headquarters. The SAC general aboard, one of 50 who regularly pull Looking Glass duty, is the AEAO (for Airborne Emergency Actions Officer). He is in charge of a group of officers and technicians maintaining instant communications with Omaha, the White House, the Pentagon, and each of the 70 SAC bases all over the world...
...transceiver radios, similar to those used by radio-dispatched taxis, have a range of about 20 miles in the country, cost about $75. Thus equipped, the motor association pointed out, the beleaguered motorist would have only to "pull over, roll up the windows, lock the doors, and start talking." He would not even have to cry HELP! for that is what the program would be called. Short, of course, for Highway Emergency Locating Plan...
...fashionable marriage. Just as murder is war in miniature, Gogol's Chichikov is a comic common cold symbolizing all the perennial tragic sicknesses of Russia-but not in this hammy production. It looks as though the Soviet Establishment decided that when a masterpiece bites, one has to pull its satiric teeth...
...random telephone poll yesterday of 30 Harvard and Radcliffe students, over forty per cent decided that they have had enough in Vietnam and the United States should pull out completely...
...Pull the right and the left corner of the mouth down and out-separately...