Word: pull
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...dynamism of mass parties, argued Crossman, originates with the party militants. Curiously, the mass public will be resistant to change. "The middle-the good, common-sense voter-will pull the Cabinet back from drastic change. All the new ideas come from the militant rank and file, who are always out of tune with the majority of the voters and the party leadership...
...planes use a Russian bombing technique. They come in very low against positions on the canal, and before they reach the target they pull up to 1,500 or 2,000 ft. They dive, get rid of all their armament and then they turn west. This is the best way not to get hurt. It isn't the best way to hit the target...
...Says Bruce: "At Harlem Prep, we're all here to learn. I got hung up on the whole public-school system. It was so formal. But here the students and teachers are on a first-name basis; there are no classrooms, no walls. For a class, they just pull chairs around together. It's just so beautiful." It is significant that what salvaged Bruce were three narrowly focused black institutions-his own family, A.R.C. and Harlem Prep...
...musty Persian rug to sleep and meditate upon, and many other cosas. Trippy old hinges for doors, rubber plants which manufacture rubber-bands, a larger cage for Birdie. They flaired out of the lot at last with the dowery nearly spent, Sam quiet, and the TR sweating hard to pull Merilee's purchases along behind in the U-Haul she had conned a man into lending...
...recording angel, catching every nuance, every diphthong of homosexual patter. But the script is marked by more than an appraiser's eye and an unforgetting ear. The author well knows the men Proust called "sons without a mother." He delineates the reliance on alcohol and drugs to pull a shade over the mind; the loveless encounters that begin with need and end with arrest; the deadly message of the mirror that announces the ebbing of the physical attractiveness that is the homosexual's main solace...