Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bradley is a registered Democrat, like Yorty, but he has managed to pull together a broad coalition of backers that covers the political spectrum. Endorsements have come from Democrats Ted Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, Republicans Charles Percy and Jacob Javits, and several top aides of California Governor Ronald Reagan. To win, Bradley knows that he must get a slice of Los Angeles' large conservative vote, an area that has been Yorty's exclusive bailiwick...
Vicky Dodd left the Harvard tennis match early on Saturday, but her boyfriend, captain John Levin, and his two classmates stayed around long enough to pull the Crimson out of the doldrums and push it past spirited Yale, 6-3, at Soldiers' Field...
...business executives have renewed their complaints about the war in Washington. Last week, 1,300 Quakers picketed the White House. Two ranking Senate Republicans, Chief Whip Hugh Scott and George Aiken, the party's senior Foreign Relations Committee member, have declared themselves in favor of an immediate pull-out of U.S. forces. As Aiken put it, the U.S. must "turn that country and that war back to its rightful owners...
...centennial re-enactment of the last-spike ceremony; 81 of them paid $995 apiece for a round-trip ride from New York to Utah on a special train hauled by steam locomotive as far as Kansas City, where a mammoth Union Pacific diesel took over for the long pull across the Rocky Mountains. U.P. President Ed Bailey arrived in a private car hitched to a passenger train, but some of his vice presidents chose a faster way. They arrived from Omaha for the ceremonies aboard one of the railroad's two Sabreliner executive jets...
...common with a soldier manning the trenches. He realizes that a clumsy bureaucracy has plucked him out of his familiar city life and pumped him full of tales about his opponent's evils, but his training seems suddenly inadequate. He is defenseless, and his overriding concern becomes to pull out of this latest adventure in one piece...