Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tough Wellesley defense, combined with sloppy Radcliffe passing, added up to a thriller for the extremely vocal Wellesley fans. The incredible uproar that arose from the peanut gallery with every Wellesley triumph fizzled the 'Cliffe's momentum time and again and helped Wellesley pull close whenever defeat seemed imminent...
...blue-and-silver cars of the Peanut Special-an Amtrak train leased for fun and bound for glory. At exactly 1 p.m., as Jimmy stood in the windy 10° F. weather, waving a gloved hand and flashing the famous teeth, the Peanut Special began to pull away from Plains-the first passenger train to have made a stop there in 20 years...
...most who shivered in long Johns or waited up to six hours for tow trucks to pull their cars out of snowbanks, the challenge of the extraordinary winter was something they would prefer to pass up. The weather punished sections of the nation in varied ways, most of them harsh and costly. A tour of the icy American horizon, region by region...
...goods and services had risen at an annual rate of only 3% in the last three months of 1976, the lowest increase since the recovery began in the spring of 1975. The growth rate was below both the 3.9% of the third quarter and the 4% plus needed to pull down unemployment, which stood at 7.8% at year...
...second thing you notice is the apparent absence of racial tension. Students pull at the arm of Chuck Williams, a blond, frizzy-haired English teacher. "Mr. Williams, Mr. Williams, what is brown and sounds like a bell?" Williams rolls his eyes and lets his head vibrate. "Dung...