Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peck describes the program as a collaborative effort that requires careful cooperation for success. "We pull together some of the finest undergraduate dancers, musicians, technicians, and producers with some wonderful kids to do something both artistically and socially rewarding," she says...
...great offense to this for several reasons. First, Kyle and Bill were only doing their duty as a teammate. There is an unwritten rule in team sports that team members came to the aid of another in a fight, whether to keep others away from the action or to pull entangled combatants away from each other. (Pro hockey and baseball and examples where this often occurs.) Kyle and Bill were doing just this, and I am grateful to them and all my teammates for their support. Kyle and Bill are going to be super players and have worked hard...
Indeed, the Soviets appeared to have few illusions about their wily guest. In a bitter attack on Papandreou only a year ago, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda pointed out that his Socialist party had campaigned on pledges to pull the country out of NATO and close down U.S. bases in Greece. Today, more than three years later, Greece remains in the alliance and a new U.S.-Greek base agreement has been negotiated. Editorialized Pravda: "There are many objective obstacles on the way to progressive changes." Said a Moscow-based Western diplomat: "The Soviets must wonder if Papandreou ever means what...
...reason for Syria's current strength is the Arab perception that its hard line led to Israel's decision to pull out of Lebanon. In the first phase, finished ahead of schedule on Saturday, the Israelis withdrew from the Awali River and redeployed seven to 20 miles south. A recent increase of attacks on Israeli soldiers by Lebanese Shi'ite forces, including the killing of three last week, has prompted some Jerusalem officials to call for a reexamination of the pullback. So far, however, Peres insists that Israel will stick to its schedule...
Despite strenuous morning heats, Harvard and Radcliffe rowers returned to the crgy several hours and strokes later, to pull out impressive times in the open and lightweight men's and women's finals...