Word: pull
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Security will continue to be a problem. One solution, as U.S. units grow fewer and smaller, would be to pull as many Americans as possible into coastal enclaves where they could be more easily supplied and protected. Too much isolation from the South Vietnamese, however, would only diminish the effectiveness of the American troops. Whatever is done, the U.S. forces will be uncomfortably dependent upon ARVN to hold and police the countryside. U.S. military planners are frankly uneasy about the situation. Said former Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke, one of the authors of the withdrawal plans: "The nightmare...
Unable to read the Chiefs' revolving defense, Quarterback Joe Kapp repeatedly called automatics, which served only to pull his own line offside. The Vikings, who had averaged 27 points per game in their own league, did not cross the Chiefs' 40 until the third quarter. Their running attack netted only 67 yds.; Kapp's passes were hardly more effective-no long, score-producing bombs and two disastrous interceptions. Although the Chiefs' line backers blitzed only once, Kapp was dumped for losses three times. The final indignity came in the fourth quarter when the rugged quarterback...
...closer to the earth than either Mars or Venus. A spacecraft would have to use only a small amount of fuel to land on an asteroid and blast off again; a twelve-mile-wide asteroid, for example, would exert about one ten-thousandth of the earth's gravitational pull. Even if a ten-ton spacecraft turned over as it touched down, it could be easily righted...
...They had fought, by that time, the equivalent of 70 rounds, and on several occasions got carried away and forgot to pull their punches. "You couldn't put those two together without them testing each other," says Woroner. Ali bloodied Marciano's nose (just as the computer said he would). At another point, when his arms were covered with welts and felt heavy as scrap iron, Muhammad retreated to his corner and refused to come out again until Woroner paid him an extra $2,000 in cash. (Ali's original deal was $10,000, plus a piece...
...same combination of the immediate and the eternal is seen in his Seasons. His calendar series shows mankind busy but small, in true proportion to the all-embracing land. In fact, these pictures seem to pull the sky around one like a canopy. One's gaze penetrates the concrete actuality, mere paint on planks, to enter space more vast than any gallery. Yet the space is not merely visual but emotional. Like T. S. Eliot, Bruegel seems to ask whether it would be worthwhile...