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Word: pulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will still go on developing antisatellite systems. It will go on developing space weapons systems. So here you see how certain people in the U.S. are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...Star Wars weaponry. He displayed a talent for vivid metaphor unheard in the Kremlin since the days of Nikita Khrushchev. Sample: "Certain people in the U.S. are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out." He made political points with biting humor, at one point inviting the U.S. to reply to what it views as Soviet propaganda "according to the principle of 'an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' " For example, Gorbachev went on, if Moscow announced a suspension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Vigorous Leader | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...might not be able to make it," says Pilot Masami Takahama, as his plane pitches and yaws out of control. "Hey, there's a mountain," he tells his crew at one point. In the passenger cabin, a flight attendant says, "Hold your babies tightly." The last words recorded: "Pull up! Pull up!" The tape ends with a crashing sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Further Signs of Stress | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...around $700 and far more complicated to convert to automatic firing. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms unintentionally gave the MAC a boost in the underworld in 1979 when it classified the gun as a semiautomatic weapon. The distinction was crucial: semiautomatic guns, which require a separate pull of the trigger for each bullet, can be purchased easily. Automatic weapons must be registered with local and federal authorities and their sale accompanied by fingerprints, certification by the law-enforcement agency and a $200 tax. Possessing an automatic weapon without proper registration is punishable by up to ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Further Signs of Stress | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...capital still lift bags from foreign shoulders along the Via Nazionale, the petty-crime rate has actually dropped slightly, owing to increased police vigilance. One golden * oldie that still works: thieves slightly puncture a rental car's tire, and when a flat develops on the Autostrada del Sole, they pull alongside, offering to help change the tire. Before a victim can say grazie, his luggage is out of the trunk and speeding down the road. Bolder thieves on the outskirts of Seville, Spain, smash the car windows of cathedral-bound sightseers stopped at traffic lights and snatch purses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Stinging Innocents Abroad | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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