Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fish seemed satisfied that his troops had given a good account of themselves. "They've had a great season," he said yesterday. "To pull themselves together after the Navy defeat, beat Yale so badly and then lose to them by only one point in the New Englands despite having a bad day was just great...
...batsmen came back for four runs on five hits in the sixth and seventh to pull within two and force the departure of the Waltham flamethrower, Bob Birrell. But Kevin Moore came through with three scoreless innings out of the pen, and Brandeis made no mistakes the rest...
Ultimate Frisbee is played on a field 70 yards long by 30 yards wide with two 25-yard endzones. Play begins with a "Pull-off" in which one of the seven men on one team lofts the disc towards the opposing team at the opposite goal. Teams advance by completing passes to teammates upfield, and a goal is scored when a team member catches the discover the goal line...
CATV quickly caught on in other communities where reception was poor. Antenna builders soon noticed that if they made the towers tall enough, they could pull in signals from distant as well as nearby stations, thereby offering viewers greater variety as well as clearer pictures. But the road from Panther Valley to national prominence was long blocked by the FCC. Not until the 1970s did two events combine to broaden the cable audience dramatically: the FCC's first steps toward deregulation and, more important, the coming of satellite transmission. Since 1975, cable programmers (Home Box Office, a subsidiary...
Tenth place in 1966. My God--the cellar? The Yankees? Eleven years without a pennant. Turn off Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto or Bill White or Bob Gamere (yes, Bob Gamere) in disgust and open the Baseball Encyclopedia, wallow in history, thrill to past glories. Pull out the Strat-O-Matic Baseball game, play the Old Timers teams: '27 Yankees, or '41 Yankees, or '50 Yankees, or '61 Yankees--dice-rolled greatness. "Babe Ruth comes to the plate, the Bambino, with sixty-count 'em-sixty circuit clouts this year, Lou Gehrig on deck. The Yanks winning this ballgame 12-1, winning, winning...