Word: pull
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...equal to the pull of gravity at the earth's surface...
...than sculpture, soccer or Scrabble"), aseptical-y criticizing the jury ("It contains in the alternate section a lady I would not care to have judge me on a jaywalking rap"), offering advice on uxoricide ("The best way to murder your wife is to have a few drinks with her, pull out your revolver and shoot her, then head for the nearest cop and hand him the gun"), and from first to last reporting the trial in breezy, firehouse prose...
...Alpert lieutenants brought in from another road in 1958. Said Orner: "It is fairly obvious that the first thing to do is to improve employee and passenger morale. We've got to get people to like the New Haven again and to patronize the railroad. We must all pull in one harness at one time. We haven't had that lately on the New Haven...
...varsity can pull out a victory over Navy, the road will be open to challenge Yale in March. If not, with the Crimson having suffered a League loss to Navy, Yale will have an intangible edge...
Nobody who has seen Pull My Daisy by Jack Kerouac [with Beat Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky in the cast] can agree with the distorted impression you have given of it in your Dec. 14 issue. You have completely neglected to mention that Putt My Daisy is an attempt at spontaneous movie making and does not pretend to be anything else. You attempt to compare it to a home movie because the narrator speaks for the characters; yet even your obvious attempt to make Kerouac's prose seem humorous cannot dim its haunting poetic quality...