Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players and Yale does have a pretty good defense against rushing. Also, Yale's Massey to Milligan passing combination isn't bad. But the Bruins are hungry after last week's bad breaks and they have a bit too much on both offense and defense for the Bulldogs to pull out a victory on this sunny day in Providence. The Elis were lucky last Saturday but not this afternoon so I pick Brown...
...idea for a Moratorium Day came to him last spring after a Massachusetts peace group proposed a drive to set a deadline for termination of the war, using the threat of a nationwide general strike as its main weapon. Brown considered a commerce-stopping strike almost an impossibility to pull off, but guessed that a national day of protest, accenting pacific rallies, door-to-door pleading and campus debates, might inspire significant support. "The discussion of the war had become stale," he says. "We needed new tactics...
...home and work at changing the country. To be sure, there are free love communes in West Berlin, pot-smokers and hippies in most large cities, but the mood of the young is, by and large, activist. Significantly, Nobel prizewinning Novelist Hermann Hesse no longer exerts a strong pull on young West Germans. To them, Hesse's romantic mystique of the outsider and his preoccupation with passive Oriental philosophies has about it what British Critic D. J. Enright calls "the smell of metaphysical Lederhosen." Hesse's appeal is largely to those racked by uncertainty and disillusion, which explains his vogue...
...years as a TV star, he kept the censors working overtime, cutting out his gamy wisecracks. Now just past his 74th birthday, Groucho Marx is still demonstrating an undiminished capacity for the leering remark. "Would you pull your skirt down?" he asked a coed at a college film seminar in Los Angeles. "It's very distracting, even at my age." Then Groucho called the students' attention to a scene in his 1935 movie A Night At the Opera. As con man Otis B. Driftwood, he was carrying Margaret Dumont's luggage up a gangplank. "Have...
...Pull-ups." psychological calisthenics during which anti-social acts are named and admitted to are a regular part of morning meeting. "I left the cigarette burning in the linen closet," Lance admits. Daytop might have burned down...