Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midway through the "Gunbarrel" in Knox Cave, New York, I tried to pull myself forward a little bit. There wasn't enough room, and my hand stuck in a crevice beneath me. As I pulled back to get it loose, my helmet cracked hard against the rock ceiling. Now both my arms were stretched straight in front of me, my legs straight back. The only way to get moving again in that tight space was to push myself with my boot toes, lifting myself off the ground with my elbows, gaining an inch or two each time...
...responsive chord among the state's inflation-conscious cattlemen and lumbermen by demanding cutbacks in federal spending. Potentially, however, the most profitable issue for Babcock is the junior Senator's disagreement with the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam policy. While Metcalf advocates that the U.S. "pull out of the jungles and hold the enclaves we have in hand," Babcock attacks what he calls a "no-win" policy, urges intensified bombing in the North...
...order that men on patrol must remain at least 15 yards apart. But the price of life is constant vigilance, and it is a price that even the best of soldiers sometimes forget to pay. Near Danang recently, a veteran Marine sergeant, who should have known better, tried to pull up an anti-American sign stuck in a paddy dike. Both he and the sign were blown to pieces...
...occur for 30 more years. Nobody knows for sure who happened onto it first. All at once, half a dozen players started throwing corkscrews, grasping the ball by its laces and rifling it through the air. But it took another 60 years and a horde of exceptional athletes to pull the cork completely out of the bottle...
...surprising. Hertz constantly needs vast amounts of money to purchase new vehicles and open new locations, particularly in foreign nations, where the idea of car rentals has caught on fast. The tight money market has put a damper on the company, forced it, in Greenebaum's words, to "pull back on some experimental work we've been doing in developing new markets." One pullback, for the time being: a market test in which Hertz had been making extra sports cars available to see how eagerly drivers with more funds and free time would rent them. Moreover, hard-striving...