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Word: pulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...energy before the Yale game, and we really wanted it," LaSovage said. "But we just couldn't put it all together to pull...

Author: By Meredith M. Bagley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Improves and Impresses | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...have applied to jobs, been interviewed and offered positions only to pull out at the last minute in fear--fear of accepting the fact that I must choose, that I cannot be everywhere and everything. I have nothing to do next year because I am not yet willing to channel myself in a direction that will mark me, limit me and steer me forever. Yes, you can quit your job. You can go back to school. You can move to a new continent. But you cannot recover the past. You cannot ever get back on the highest diving board, clean...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Facing a World of Worlds | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

There were 44 seconds left, and Harvard had the ball and a tenuous one-point lead over Stanford. Everyone in the house thought the rock was going to Allison Feaster--and why not? All she did was score 35 points and pull down 13 rebounds that night...

Author: By Notorious G.i.z., EDUARDO PEREZ-GIZ | Title: Life After Death | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...look hot today.' Kids take that as a compliment," says Nan Stein, a former middle school teacher and currently director of the Project on Bullying and Sexual Harassment in Schools at Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. "Harassment is if he flips up her skirt or tries to pull down her pants. And boys can also be victims of harassment or sexual bullying." The most serious cases could involve sexual touching, bumping or grabbing, as well as lewd talk and the passing of sexually explicit pictures or notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexual Bullying | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak promised to pull Israel out of its Lebanon quagmire in a year; Israel's local proxy army may not wait that long. The South Lebanon Army, which was created by Israel in 1985 to help patrol its self-declared "security zone" inside southern Lebanon, withdrew from the Jezzine enclave Monday, under fire from Hezbollah guerrillas as they went. With the local SLA commander acknowledging that the withdrawal was prompted by mounting casualties at the hands of Hezbollah, the retreat is a significant victory for the Iran-backed movement's protracted war of attrition. Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Out of Lebanon, Turn Out the Lights | 6/1/1999 | See Source »

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