Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Falling Ax. Apart from this emerging constellation, the appointments held some other clues. No professional military men were elevated to full membership on the Central Committee, thus indicating that the army has only limited pull with the new leadership. By contrast, one of eight new men elected to full Central Committee membership was Vladimir Semichastny, who is Shelepin's successor as head of the secret police. This promotion, coming on top of Shelepin's own, suggested to some Kremlinologists that a new era of the cop may be starting in Russia. The new rulers, though in favor...
...draft college guards because they're too small," explains one scout. "We take tackles and convert them to guards." There are exceptions this year. The nation's No. 1 college lineman, DeLong has the speed ("He's as agile as a 185-pounder") to pull out and lead interference for running plays. Sutton is given top marks for pass blocking, and "he can execute downfield blocks with the best...
...turned the half-mile in 1 min. 54 sec., setting his own blazing pace, running easily in that long, loping stride of his. At that rate, he would have an incredible 3-min. 48-sec. mile-if Odlozil and Davies could drive him on. Then Snell started to pull away-5 yds., 10 yds., 15 yds. Odlozil and Davies struggled to keep up, but they were fighting for wind. Snell would have to do it alone. At the threequarter mark, he was 25 yds. in front-and slowly, almost imperceptibly, his pace slackened. The crowd waited anxiously for his famed...
Granger said that the police have an extra car and two additional footmen patrolling the Radcliffe area every night. "But the big problem," he added, "is that the girls don't pull down their shades. You can look into their rooms after dark and see them doing all sorts of indiscreet things...
...desk of Cornell football coach Tom Harp is a little reminder that he has kept close to him since last year. It says Princeton 51, Cornell 14, and he hopes it will inspire his Big Red to turn the tables on the Tigers at Princeton today and pull the rug out from under the Bengal's undefeated season...