Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balanced scoring attack did the rest and Harvard began to pull away. Johnson, all over the court with his exciting bouncy stride and crowd-pleasing leaps, followed Norlander with 17 points. Bob Kanuth and Gallagher scored 12 apiece and Beller...
...four-fifths of the 20 gallons per head consumed annually, leaving the home in second rank as a place to drink. But Britain's new stop-and-sniff law, which went into effect Oct. 15, threatens to change all that. It authorizes police to make a suspected tippler pull to the curb and take a "breathalyzer" test-that is, he must blow into a bag in which crystals that change color indicate how much alcohol he has imbibed. After a mere two pints of beer, or four small tots of whisky, he risks arrest...
...also be pretty cute. "When an offensive guard comes up to the line," says Tackle Ray Jacobs of the American Football League's Miami Dolphins, "I watch the way he sets himself. Some guys lean back on their haunches, which means that they're either going to pull for a run or go back for a pass protection." Tackle Alex Karras of the N.F.L.'s Detroit Lions examines opponents' knuckles. If the knuckles are white, they intend to block forward and the play is a run; if the knuckles are pink, the play is probably...
...bring instant success. The next few years were spent doing the town-to-town Community Concert circuit. In 1964, he refused to play before a segregated audience in Jackson, Miss., and that temporarily knocked the props from under his career: the following season he was able to pull down a mere eight bookings. This season, Graffman's schedule calls for 100 appearances. "That's too many by 25," he says. "With all those concerts, there is no time to learn anything...
Americans also feel that other nations could do more to pull up their technological socks. "It surprises us in the U.S.," Chase Manhattan Chairman David Rockefeller bluntly told a Paris meeting of businessmen, "that you pay relatively little attention to management training and to training in some of the newer scientific disciplines. The American advantage comes not so much from the discovery of new ideas and methods as from their application. It has to do basically with capabilities in management, engineering and marketing, in short, the willingness to take risks and to accept the change...