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Word: pulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...automatically change shape during tight, fast moves, allowing a pilot to shake off a pursuing plane and most missiles in wrenching operations, like 360° revolving turns. Fortunately, F-16s have a special seat that tilts back 30°, like a barber's chair, to ease the punishing pull of gravity in sharp turns and loops. As a result, says Rider: "you are as comfortable in a 7.5-G turn in the F-16 as you were at about 5 Gs in the F-4 Phantom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: War at 33 Miles a Minute | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...Japanese are worried that the U.S. will pull out of Korea," Reischauer said...

Author: By J. CHRISTOPHER Flowers, | Title: Reischauer Praises Japan | 2/24/1978 | See Source »

Realistically, the icemen could lose to Cornell and B.U., but sweep Yale and beat Dartmouth to pull it off. But judging from the squad's most recent endeavors, how realistic is that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Providence Ties, Buoys Icemen | 2/23/1978 | See Source »

Then, two minutes later, John Dunderdale led George Hughes in alone on a breakaway. Hughes, with Napier beaten, tried to pull the puck around to his backhand and lost control, yet managed to shovel the puck over to linemate Gene Purdy, who was left to shoot on an open net. But Purdy's shot dribbled wide...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Big Red Belittles Icemen, 6-3 | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

...tensions between them continue to build. Mamet, it seems, wanted to show the ultimate powerlessness and futility of his characters, like Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot, but without the existential mantle that cloaks Becket's fine work and gives it its legitimacy, Mamet simply cannot pull it off. There is just not enough of a plot to give his idea any weight, and what little there is is far too flimsy to bear the tensions Mamet imposes. A tacked-on existential conclusion to a mundane drama about the values of the urban lower class is just too much...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Wooden Buffalo | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

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