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Word: pulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into their rooms." Leonard I. Ganz '84 of Lowell House recalls of his sophomore year: "you would hear a bang on you door at 8 o'clock in the morning, five construction workers would come in, smoking cigars, sit down on your couch and watch TV. Eventually one would pull out a razor and start scraping paint...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Days of upheaval | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...stone into the black hole of Chris' imagination and never hear it hit bottom. I'd never thought about directing Gremlins myself-I wanted to take a long vacation from anything with a wire trailing from its rear end that makes a creature smile when you pull it-but Joe seemed perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creature Comforts and Discomforts | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

Hitler's top generals urged him to pull back from Normandy and establish a new defensive line on the Seine. Hitler refused. He ordered Field Marshal Günther von Kluge, his commander in the west, to launch an immediate counterattack against the American breakthrough force. Into this he flung not only the battered remnants of the Seventh Army but also the Fifteenth Army, which had been at the Pas de Calais awaiting the invasion that never came. Their mission: to cut through American lines to the port of Avranches and isolate the twelve American divisions that Patton had led south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Every Man Was a Hero A Military Gamble that Shaped History | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...understood and perhaps even relished by oldtimers like Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Any challenge to Soviet interests now, whether deploying new NATO missiles or calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire," produces intense response from the uncertain rulers, ranging from the Olympic pull-out to last week's announcement that more Soviet missiles would be placed in East Germany. "Something we do not understand fully is going on in the Kremlin," says a White House adviser. "For the first time they may really be without a leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Inscrutable Adversary | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...overexposed himself while others compromised by stripping to their underwear. The scene then went off without a hitch-or in some cases a stitch. Walters had no trouble summoning the laughter called for by the script. The naked truth: the Equity official was really an actor friend helping her pull off a naughty joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 21, 1984 | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

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