Word: pull
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Mark Faller coasted to his 12th straight triumph with an easy 9-2 win over Bill Winstein at 167. Leading all the way, Tony Rayner was tied by George Clozco at 177, 6-6, when Clozco accumulated 1:01 riding time in the final period to pull even...
...full-time job that stretches a hard-working Senator too far; and 2) since he has difficulty disguising his own ambitions, all his moves as party chairman have led rivals for the 1972 presidential nomination to eye his efforts as self-serving. Harris possesses no effective leverage to pull all of the factions together...
Less than a year after Frances' death, Henry the widower married Susan Blanchard, stepdaughter of Oscar Hammerstein II. They honeymooned on St. John's in the Virgin Islands, free from the family and the phone. Peter, 10, chose that moment to aim a gun at his stomach and pull the trigger. The slug went through his liver. "I don't know if I was trying to commit suicide or not," says Peter. "Since then, the idea has occurred to me many times to do my self up, but righteously...
Unmistakable Style. Chatting, perhaps, is not quite the word to describe communication with Beethoven. Nor is eavesdropping. From the age of 45, he was totally deaf, and anyone who wanted to talk to him had to write out the message. For this purpose, Beethoven would obligingly pull a pencil and a rumpled 5-in. by 7-in. notebook out of his pocket and offer them to visitors. Because he usually replied orally, the conversation books are as one-sided as one half of a telephone call. Yet they make clear what Beethoven was thinking about, and where he occasionally wrote...
Both teams are better this winter, but Harvard's improvement is probably more appreciable. Nevertheless, Crimson coach Bill Brooks has said that Dartmouth is the favorite. "I expect a very close meet, but we'll need a break or two to pull through," he said...