Word: pull
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Tonight, Harvard's opponents will be wearing maroon-and-gold, and if the Crimson can pull off a long-desired victory at Boston College, it will have earned its way into the ECAC semifinals next weekend at Boston Garden...
...foundation and begin to slide in billowing masses down the slope. It can be set off by a sudden shift of wind. Literally riding on a cushion of air at speeds of up to 150 m.p.h., dust avalanches create such enormous pressure differentials that they have been known to pull people out of their homes or knock down scores of trees without actually striking them...
...Gambler's Paradise," the city is labeled. But anyone who has visited Las Vegas knows that the slogan is a contradiction in terms. In the neon wilderness, blue-haired ladies pull on the one-armed bandits as if they were lifelines; at the card and crap tables, aggressive customers line up like lambs for the fleecing. Like a Vegas concession, The Only Game in Town is a tempting trap. The odds look attractive: Elizabeth Taylor back at her fighting weight, Warren Beatty in his first film since Bonnie and Clyde, both directed by George Stevens (Shane, Giant...
...choreography is shaky in the opening scenes, but produces a particularly dazzling kick-line of glittering green "Grizzlies" toward the end of the first act. Beoeulf's costumes and sets produce the usual spectacular effects, but even with the rest of the show's occasional lifts, can't really pull HPT 122 out of the dumps...
...have tamed and broken the bold spirit of these magnificent people, while molding them into submissiyeness, bears resemblance to the sin of taming all wild stallions to pull a plow and letting the eagle become extinct...