Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman heavyweight race was begun from a floating start, but referee Tony Antin gave an improperly quick command to row while Harvard was maneuvering to pull even with the other two crews. Partially because of the mishap, which caught the Crimson by surprise, Pennsylvania sped away to an open-water lead at once...
...whom now believe that the universe began about 10 billion years ago with the explosion of a primordial clump of densely packed matter. The fragments of the original "big bang" have been expanding outward ever since, but at a rate that is steadily decelerating be cause of gravitational pull of each particle of matter on all the others. If the total mass of the universe is less than a certain value, cosmologists say, gravitational pull will never fully overcome the momentum imparted by the big bang; the universe will then continue to expand forever. But if the universal mass...
...that they would boycott the Olympics unless the invitation was rescinded. In some cases it was an empty threat: such small countries as Malawi and Upper Volta are not recognized by the I.O.C. and could not compete in Mexico anyway. The clincher came when the Soviet Union threatened to pull out and a number of top U.S. Negro athletes opted to boycott too. That kind of pressure, plus the worldwide reaction to Martin Luther King's assassination, left the I.O.C. with only one practical course: banning South Africa...
When the College building began to show signs of decay, the English students moved out. Eventually--no repairs were made--the presses also had to be removed. The Corporation finally offered 5 pounds to anyone who would pull the building down, but there were no takers...
...finally, the liberal activists saw SDS in confusion after the death of Martin Luther King. A Boston rally held by SDS and other radical groups seemed purposeless and poorly timed. Above all, it was nearly all white. An SDS demand to pull all police out of the ghetto was severely criticized in the Crimson by Dr. Robert Coles, who asserted that the white radicals lacked any understanding of what was happening there. And meanwhile Afro came on strong and took nearly all the newsmaking campus activism away from them...