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Word: pulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Things started out slow but now they're picking up" Stiles said, adding, "If we can pull together as a unit we should do well...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Trackmen to Start Against B.U. | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...They were paddled as many as 100 times by the "Board of Education," a thick plank, and a microphone was placed near the mouths of victims to amplify screams for the congregation. Jones, who said he could raise the dead, also staged healing rites in which he claimed to pull cancerous organs from ill people; what he had in his hands, in fact, were chicken innards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cult Massacre | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...spectator's interest in the problems of social kissing (a phenomenon they witness mainly on Johnny Carson) or in the protocol of inviting gay couples to a party. The Milwaukee housewife who hauls trash barrels to the curb every Monday morning is not affronted when her husband fails to pull out her chair at dinner. She settles for watching reruns of the butler Hudson on Upstairs, Downstairs and for the knowledge that wherever she goes, all day long, other Americans will be singing out pleasantly, "Have a nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...already achieved some major goals. They have made the West aware of their displeasure with slapdash coverage of their affairs. They have pried pledges of equipment and training from the West. Perhaps most important, and most disturbing, they have realized that they can, in the words of one specialist, "pull the plugs anywhere" in the international communications system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Third World vs. Fourth Estate | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...help SSC&B to act on a long-postponed plan to buy out the 51% of the Lintas agency network still owned by Unilever, the British-Dutch food, detergents and toiletries concern. SSC&B bought 49% of Lintas from Unilever in 1970, but until now has been unable to pull together enough capital to make good on an option to buy the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Merger on Madison Avenue | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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