Word: pull
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...tries to change the direction of Western culture by involving everyone in a game he calls "Life." The best story of this unexceptional collection is titled 'Forbidden Planet." Intergalactic warriors plan to destroy the earth by giving a small switch-box to a human, with the warning not to pull the switch. They fly out of range and wait for the inevitable, but they haven't counted on anomie. With a shrug the guy throws the box into the river and walks...
Marinaro still managed to pick up 147 yards in 29 attempts and pull off one spectacular play for the Sports Illustrated writers watching him from the press box racing 30 yards for Cornell's last touchdown on a fourth and seven situation...
...Politicians and political types invariably regard the press as an implacable enemy," President Johnson's onetime press secretary, George E. Reedy, told an audience of Princeton University students last week. A U.S. President "tends to view attacks upon himself as attacks upon the country," said Reedy. "L.B.J. could pull out a mental file drawer in which he had catalogued every major sin by anyone who had ever held a pencil...
...until the trustees capitulated. The graduate studies improved apace: C.U.N.Y. now enrolls 28,500 graduate students. Partially because of pressure from two teachers' unions, salaries rose to $11,960 for instructors and to $29,800 for full professors. A few prestigious scholars, like Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., pull down $50,000, compared with Bowker...
...death, he hinted through his U.N. ambassador that Egypt might move some missiles back in exchange for U.S. guarantees against an Israeli attack on Egyptian territory. With Nasser gone, there is no Egyptian who possesses enough power to risk the reaction that might follow an order to pull back. Only El Rais?"the Boss," as Arabs jocularly called Nasser?could do that...