Word: pull
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...varsity is nearly healthy. Inside Bruce Johnstone, out for almost a month with a groin injury, played in Saturday's Columbia game, but will not make the trip to Dartmouth. Inside Johann Nottebohm has an injured Achilles tendon, and fullback John Jeppson still is suffering from a thigh pull. Left halfback Bill King, a defensive whis whom coach Bruce Munro calls "the backbone of the halfback line," is afflicted with a virus, but should be ready to play...
Since the present farm program must cater to international politics, as well as to corn farmers in Kansas and apple growers in upstate New York, it has failed to cater to anyone. Hence, the difference in candidates will mean almost nothing to the farmers when they pull the levers on Nov. 8. It seems almost inevitable that most of their sons will be city dwellers...
Against the fervent and dramatic urgings of Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, the annual conference of the British Labor Party last week voted a sensational course: to scrap British nuclear weapons, to eject Britain's U.S. allies from airbases on British soil, to pull out of the NATO alliance and count Britain out of the cold war. The decision cracked the crumbling Labor Party wide open. It doomed the Opposition Laborites-who have failed to win the confidence of British voters in three straight elections-to further years in the political wilderness...
...other," roared Cousins, "we want no part of it. We talk of having friendship with Russia-and then we threaten them with the bomb." The boilermakers' delegate said it with metaphors mixed: "America and Russia are like two grizzly bears trying to get at each other. Let us pull out of this bear garden. Let us act as mediators between these two gorillas." In one emotion-bogged passage, leftist ex-M.P. Ian Mikardo shouted: "I am not prepared to see my loved ones go up in radioactive dust so that we should act as a lightning conductor...
...Pickup. Most klaxoners, known by such names as Yvette of the Opel, Rossana of the Dauphine, Maria of the Appia, discreetly toot horns and flash headlights to attract the prospect's attention. In a favorite gambit, pairs of klaxon girls pull right alongside male motorists; the one at the wheel keeps the car just abreast, the other casually unbuttons her blouse. Blonde "Insurance Nadia," on the other hand, got her name by her habit of gently jostling a male driver's rear bumper, then sidling out to coo that her insurance company will pay damages...