Word: pull
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...long after American troops entered Cambodia, the usual complement of tourists, strollers and protesters in Washington's Lafayette Square were startled to see a swarm of black limousines pull out of the White House gates, wheel around the corner and descend on A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters. President Nixon, maps and charts in tow, had come to explain his Cambodian policy to the executive labor council. He thus made a parlor call in a continuing courtship that Republicans hope will erode the Democratic Party's traditional base among working men and women...
...Gregory cheered visibly each time he spotted a woman driving alone. Whenever one passed, he waved happily and gave the air-horn cable a long, hard pull. Air-conditioned, stereo-equipped cabs keep truckers cool, clean and reasonably contented. From his perch in the sleeping bunk behind the seats, Graves observed: "I know most people think of us as big, brainless, sweaty old men, but today there's a lot of drivers dressed better than most people." Some even wear neckties on the road. Drivers are no longer required to help with the chores of loading and unloading; mechanics...
...after the explosion, leaflets entitled "Why the Bombing" appeared on buildings and billboards in Madison. Signed "Life Above the Trees," the leaf lets claimed that the center's "role is to solve military problems, to design triggers for others to pull. Their research has killed literally thousands of innocent people and has developed instruments for delivery of nuclear and chemical-biological bombs." The message pointed out that the bombers had chosen a time when the building was least likely to be occupied-early morning, between scholastic terms-and had phoned a warning to police. Furthermore, the radicals complained rather...
...claims of $125,000, and the company still has to renew my policy." Insurers protest that writing policies under those conditions would be economic suicide. Five large companies, including Travelers Corp., the largest writer of auto policies in Massachusetts, and Aetna Casualty, the third largest, insist that they will pull out of the auto-insurance business in the state completely if these provisions remain...
...chance to work. The legislature's insurance committee did agree last week to let insurers refuse to renew policies for some bad drivers, but insurers regard the change as inadequate. If the deadlock persists, Armstrong fears, there will be "a domino effect." Some auto insurers will pull out of the state; other companies, unhappy at the prospect of taking on money-losing business, will either resist writing new policies on unwanted high-risk cases-or else quit the state. Eventually, many drivers with less-than-perfect records will be unable to purchase insurance from anyone...