Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more formidable conferee than the compliant Ludwig Erhard had been. The first meeting was supposed to be only a 15-minute hello session; it lasted eight times that long. Kiesinger brought up the nettlesome matter of U.S.-German consultations; he was upset that when the U.S. recently decided to pull out of Germany 20,000 troops and 144 F-105 fighter-bombers, he had learned of the moves in the press and through leaks from low-ranking U.S. officers...
...infighting, they decided to join forces, borrowed $3,000 and turned out their first production, The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes. To shave expenses, they reduced the monster's role to something resembling an oversexed vaporizer, but Beast was a screaming success, owing almost entirely to the pull of the title and the practice of "saturation booking" -showing the feature simultaneously in every available theater in a locality, then moving on before any damaging word of mouth could circulate...
...Policemen pull guns more often than the need to in making arrests...
...defuse the dangerous situation, Secretary of State Dean Rusk suggested that both sides pull back ten miles from the six-mile-wide DMZ, creating a 26-mile neutral belt that would be policed by an international commission. Rusk's sensitivity to charges of escalation may well have prompted the plan; with the U.S. strengthening its forces in the area, he wanted to be on record with an offer to start talking before the U.S. starts shooting. Predictably, Hanoi thumbed down the proposal as "a trick...
French shoppers are inveterate food feelers-they pinch tomatoes, squeeze head lettuce, pull artichoke leaves, even give cheese a little poke before stashing it in their shopping sacks. Michel Turquet, 46, a former supermarket manager with a technocratic bent, hopes to change all that. If he gets his way, francs will come before fondles...