Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Themes include love, baseball, pre-Newtonian physics. "Insults," one fellow emphasizes, "are not unheard of." The younger fellows, in gaudy shirts, baggy sweaters and crepe-soled shoes, happily bait their seniors, most of them in suits and ties. A department head cannot pull rank here. "There's no power to be gained or lost," Krieger points...
Motzfeldt, a seal hunter's son from Qassimiut, a southern settlement, sets the first priority as fishing rights. Greenlanders now have exclusive rights up to twelve miles offshore, but Motzfeldt wants this extended to 100 miles. He threatens to pull out of the Common Market, to which Greenland reluctantly belongs through its link with Denmark, "if we do not get satisfaction" on fishing...
...protect fragile permafrost from being rutted by tire tracks, much of the Dempster is built on an elevated roadbed that rises as high as 6 ft. above the terrain. Thus it becomes difficult, as well as illegal, to pull off the highway and pitch a tent for the night, except at the sanctioned sites...
...really needs this fall is one runaway hit, a Charlie's Angels or a Mork and Mindy. With a smasheroo to help pull up other shows, and with the Moscow Olympics to build on in 1980, NBC could be right back in the thick of things in 18 months. ABC did it in 1976, and its pretax profits' vault would make even "Bottom Line Ed" proud: from $17 million in 1975 to $110 million...
...while, a long while, it looked as though the Bruins just might pull it off, gaining their first post-season victory in Montreal since 1971 and the pure satisfaction of outlasting their nemesis from up north...