Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson had a chance to pull an upset with 4:16 left in regulation and the score tied, 1-1, when Jane Grim lined up seven feet from UMass goalie Lynn Carlson. With the players on both teams standing behind the midline, Carlson knocked down Grim's shot with her stomach...
...took a bit out of us," Co-Captain Jon Israel said. "We had a chance to pull within three, and it could have given us a boost...
...WERE WAITING at a stoplight in Central Square when I noticed two women in long formal gowns waving at me from inside a Shell station. "Pull up," I told the cabbie, and we picked up these women and their dates, crowding six into the legally-mandated space for five. As we careened down Mass. Ave. the cabbie turned to me and asked, "What are all these tuxedos in the Square...
...Crimson was not able to pull out a heroic last-minute victory in the face of incredible adversity--it lost, 12-6. Nonetheless, the aquadudes played an excellent second half and regained some of the confidence they had lost the day before...
...risk. American Presidents and Soviet leaders have generally met in the past only after their diplomats had worked out agreements, however minor or ephemeral, for them to formalize. But Reagan and Gorbachev are conferring precisely because their subordinates have not been able to agree, in the hope they can pull off a kind of joint end run around their own diplomatic machineries. Even if all they can do is give the negotiating process a slight personal impetus -- or "impulse," as Gorbachev put it -- and produce enough momentum to bring about a full-scale summit in a few months, the gamble...