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Word: pulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HISTORIAN of the 21st century will have to go to his nearest Video Library and pull out the spliced-together copies of the Huntley-Brinkley report, of the CBS Evening News. He will need to watch the ARVN soldiers dangling from beneath helicopters on the retreat from Laos the way we did, watch G.I. s smoking dope in the barrels of M-16 s. He'll need to see the expressions on the children's faces as the cops in riot gear bash their friends. And to understand Richard Nixon, he'll have to study that damned upper...

Author: By Kerry Konrad, | Title: Talking Head: '74 | 5/11/1978 | See Source »

...word is pronounced with something of a Maxwell Smart inflection, and it has been the most popular component of the men's tennis team's vocabulary this spring. If the '78 version of Harvard tennis is to establish itself as an unbelievable squad, however, the racquetmen will have to pull off an outrageous upset over powerhouse Princeton at 2 p.m. today on the Palmer Dixon courts...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Netmen to Face Princeton In Make-or-Break Match | 5/9/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson will almost definitely need victories from Don Pompan at second singles and Kevin Shaw at number five, and they will probably have to overcome at least two of the Tigers' three tough doubles pairings to pull off a victory...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Netmen to Face Princeton In Make-or-Break Match | 5/9/1978 | See Source »

...hope we can find a way through collective bargaining with the players to pull down those warning flags," he added...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Free Agent System Discussed By Commissioner Bowie Kuhn | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Harvard hadn't racked up its 8-3 record by giving up when things started to go bad, and as time ran down, the Crimson stickmen climbed back into the contest. Dave Wigglesworth, Nelson and Jamie Egasti sandwiched goals around a tally by UMass to pull the Crimson within one with almost seven full minutes remaining...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Laxmen Rally in Late Going, But UMass Hangs On, 12-11 | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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