Word: pull
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Although the completed guidance system will not be ready for widespread installation for at least five years, those who kept pace with the pacers deemed the experiment unbelievably successful. "It is incredible," marveled Woburn Supermarket Checker Jeannette Gillis. "When you pull out, there isn't a car there." Most motorists, in fact, like Billerica Store Manager Bob Gaughan, found the system almost suspiciously painless. "I still had a tendency," Gaughan remembers, "to turn around and look at the oncoming traffic. Just to make sure...
Maggie Smith plays Hedda as a literally compulsive personality, icily aware and occasionally appalled by what she says and does, but helpless to stop herself. When she reaches out to pull the hair of her rival or burn the manuscript of the man she loves, her body lurches and twists in a jumble of conflicting drives to do the thing, not do it, and dissemble by doing something else. Her pale, strained face is a screen on which the shadow of one inner demon masters another, only to be mastered by a third. In keeping with the cinematically fluid rhythms...
...country's inner divisions and the war. "We shouldn't be fighting each other," he said, "we should be fighting the enemy." Graham himself insisted, "This is not a prowar rally, or an antiwar rally. If it became a pro-or antiwar rally, I'd pull out. I've never taken a stand on the war. This is not a political event. Let's sing a little, let's wave the flag, let's rejoice in all that's best in our country. We know America has its faults. But there...
...barbecue chef its master of the revels, the station wagon its chariot, the 8:03 or the clogged expressway its cup of doom. Few modern Americans feel much nostalgia for the farm or the small town, and most now find the once glittering big cities tarnished with decay. The pull of the suburb has been so strong that suburbanites are becoming the most numerous element in the U.S. population. According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, in 1970 suburban dwellers will number more than 71 million, taking a big lead over those inhabiting central cities (59 million) and passing the citizenry...
...flags along the city's freeways on Independence Day, spent three years in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. "I was out from under this flag for three years," he says. "It's a symbol that means apple pie and baseball, and a long, hard pull for me without it." Boston City Councilwoman Louise Day Hicks, who wears a rhine-stone-spangled flag pin, defines the whole matter with finality: "The flag is motherhood and apple...