Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...positive side, the match showed that the Crimson--heavy underdogs in the Ivy title hunt this year--have the potential to pull a few surprises. With Cornell slipping by with just six points to spare, the Harvard wrestlers find themselves on par with the top teams in the league (Cornell mauled Yale, 40-7, last weekend...
...truck was sent to pull the car out of the hole, Walsh added. "It didn't fully engulf the vehicle. Only the front part fell in," he said...
...starting Sunday, Feb. 15, imagines what the U.S. might be like under the domination of the Soviet Union. The fictional takeover has been bloodless (just how it took place is purposely kept hazy), but the consequences are drastic. A puppet President sits in the White House while Soviet officials pull the strings and plot to dismantle the Republic. The economy is such a shambles that people in the once thriving heartland now have to line up for tomatoes. American Gulags have been set up for political opponents, and the countryside is littered with camps of rootless dissidents known as "exiles...
...think the feet of our jibs are strong enough in these seas?" Well, they had been all summer. Naturally, the jib exploded. At the sound of the "boom," as Mainsheet Trimmer Jon Wright recounted for TIME Correspondent John Dunn, "everyone took off." High-wire Bowman Scott Vogel scrambled to pull the bad sail down, Mastman John Barnitt hurried to help. Pitman Jay Brown kept to his halyards. Grinders, tailors and trimmers shot off in appropriate directions, joined by Whidden and Navigator Peter Isler. Conner was left alone in the back of the boat at the wheel only he is ever...
...enter their teens, and Karl, who gets there first, begins outraging his father with typical adolescent behavior. After one acrimonious argument, the author manages a desperate joke: "This family could be worse. Noah could be normal." But Noah is not. "It is no fun," Greenfeld notes, "to have him pull hair right out of your scalp and then put it in his mouth and swallow it." And Noah is growing physically, if not mentally. Someday soon the parents will not be able to control...