Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uninterrupted rule. Desperate for a solution, Erhard's party decided to throw the choice open to a vote by its Bundestag members. On the third ballot, with the decisive backing of Strauss's Bavarian Christian Social Union, the decision went to the man who seemed best fitted to pull the divided party?and the country?together...
...plotters, the opportunity to pull the rug out from under Erhard came in late October, when he tried to persuade the Free Democrat members of his coalition Cabinet to go along with the tax increase required to balance next year's budget. In the end, stung by accounts that they were caving in to Erhard, the Free Democrats chose to save face by quitting the Cabinet and taking their 49 seats in the Bundestag along with them. Erhard was thus left with West Germany's first minority government. His position was untenable; but who would succeed...
...comedy -- and Chapman has had to make his actors feel at home in fops' clothing in about a month. He has paced the play at a good trot, and when he invents business, his touch is sure. He has given the play an authentic tone, and refused to pull in silly anachronisms to get laughs...
...would take more than eight reindeer to pull Santa Claus unscathed to Christmas through the Harvard hockey team's December schedule. Coach Cooney Weiland has got the strength, no doubt about it, to run with any team in the country; but breaking it in against every one of the equally improved Eastern powerhouses on foreign turf is enough to dim the glow of Rudolph's nose...
...over the curriculum, Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Med School, apparently felt it necessary to skirt the standing faculty Committee on Curriculum and have a totally new group draw, up the report. He asked Dr. Alexander Leaf, a member of the Curriculum Committee, last year to pull together a subcommittee. Leaf's sub-committee produced its report last Spring. Rather than risk the Curriculum Committee's toning it down, Ebert threw the proposals to the entire faculty in September. The faculty has been officially debating them at its monthly meetings since then, with unofficial debate continuing through...