Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After two weeks of practice, Davis' fate with the Pats is still unknown. He had the misfortune of suffering a severe muscle pull in his back during the first week of practice (the injury is not related to the vertebrae fracture he suffered at Harvard, however). He consequently was laid out in a hospital for the next five days, missing vital practice days and the rookies' first scrimmage. "He was right in there with the rest of them until his injury," said defensive line coach Jesse Richardson Saturday. "He was quick, had good moves, and grasped fundamentals soundly...
Every morning for three days, the string of cars crammed with grim-faced men streamed through Detroit's traffic to pull up in front of a different corporate doorway. Each time, a solemn platoon spilled from the convoy, headed by a familiar red-haired figure. A holdup? That was the way some people looked at it. For the red-haired leader was United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, and he was paying his now familiar triennial call on the nation's Big Three automakers to open negotiations for new contracts...
...wife and get a leg to stand on. In return, the two find a candidate to marry Debbie: Van Johnson, a chipmonkish used-car salesman. Up to here, the infighting and jabbing are worth watching. But in the final rounds, Writer Norman Lear and Director Bud Yorkin pull their punch lines. The result: an unconvincingly happy finale...
...understand ourselves and to get onto a new basis, which is in between these somewhere, without giving up what we consider essential, and nevertheless to resolve this conflict on some kind of mutual basis. This is a trick which may be beyond the capacity of human kind to pull off, but the alternative is not good and the effort must be made...
...Purely Financial." Far more of a shock was Charles de Gaulle's decision to pull out of a Franco-British project to build an advanced variable-geometry fighter as a European counterpart to the U.S.'s swing-wing F-lll. As the British government publicly interpreted it, the move was made on "purely financial grounds," but the whole truth is that the French have already gone ahead and developed their own variable-geometry fighter, the Dassault Mirage 3G, which is due to make its maiden flight this month. Presumably undisturbed is the ambitious joint project to build...