Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful industrial-union department-a coalition of old C.I.O.-type unions within the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-but nobody knows for how long. At its next convention, in April, Reuther's 1,500,000-member Auto Workers union, the federation's largest, will consider whether or not to pull out of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. altogether. With the Teamsters and United Mine Workers among unions already outside the fold, a U.A.W. secession, especially if other member unions follow suit, would shatter any illusion of domesticity in the house of labor, if not break up the marriage itself...
...journalists have been roughed up with such monotonous regularity in China that they now "just stay indoors." Both sides have made appeals for the overthrow of the other's regime. Neither side is above pettiness. The Russians have accused Mao of being a lousy, unreadable poet; they sometimes pull out the microphone plugs when Chinese are speaking at international meetings and house the Chinese delegations in old and elevatorless hotels. Anti-China Courses. The situation along the 4,150-mile Sino-Soviet border has long been touchy (TiME, Dec. 2). Last week U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara reported that...
...moon (a smaller bulge was raised on the opposite side of the earth). Because the moon moved more slowly across the sky when it was at its far-out apogee than the surface of the earth revolved below it, the bulge tended to lead the moon. Its gravity thus pulled forward on the moon. At perigee, when the moon was moving across the sky faster than the earth's rotation, the bulge lagged behind, exerting a backward pull. When these effects are taken into account, Singer says, some of the old mathematical and dynamical objections to the moon-capture...
...scene, Diego confronts a group of young incendiaries hell-bent on burning Spain to the ground. Both sides are presented as helpless amputees of history; the old rebel has a past but no future, the terrorists a future but no past. Communication is impossible; experience and extremism meet and pull apart without once having touched...
...scene, Diego confronts a group of young incendiaries hell-bent on burning Spain to the ground. Both sides are presented as helpless amputees of history; the old rebel has a past but no future, the terrorists a future but no past. Communication is impossible; experience and extremism meet and pull apart without once having touched...