Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under F.D.R. One of Stokes's favorite books is Who Governs? by Robert Dahl, which describes the political assimilation of European immigrants in New Haven. Although Dahl was not primarily concerned with Negroes, Stokes associates the Negroes' evolution with that of other minority groups. "If the ethnic pulled himself up a bit with the help of the rope," wrote Dahl, "he could often gain a toehold in the system; the higher he climbed, the higher he could reach for another pull upward. He was not greatly interested in leveling the mountain itself...
Heavy Price. Aggressive patrolling by two 4th Division companies drew the first fire from the North Vietnamese, and soon battles were raging throughout the hills as unit after U.S. unit moved in and made contact through the week. At nightfall the infantrymen would pull back, and air and artillery would go to work. B-52s several times came in to pound enemy positions, particularly along the lines of retreat to the Laotian border, where 150,000 Ibs. of explosives were dropped in a single raid. At week's end the fighting was still flaring in spots around...
...face behind her arm in chagrin. A sour chorus of boos accompanied her exit. Suddenly, in the middle of the act, the lights went up again and the orchestra filed offstage, leaving the audience murmuring in confusion. Suliotis had asked for an unscheduled intermission in order to pull herself together-and let the audience cool down a bit. It must have worked. She returned-eyes flashing, pacing the stage like a tigress-and finished the act with a fiery, rafter-ringing performance...
Phillips Brooks House has threatened to pull its cultural enrichment program out of the Cambridge Community Center unless the center's board agrees to election of board members by the community...
...dying screams of The Butter melt away, a fat boy in a blue pull-over sweater strolls on stage with a hand-mike. His introduction is an endless chain of bad jokes that is finally interrupted when Chuck Berry steps awkwardly on stage. This time the applause is polite, if only a burst of relief...