Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Army helicopters circled over Khrushchev's party as it progressed from Bogor to Bandung. Reason: a fear that one of the nearby Moslem rebel groups might try to pull off an assassination...
...works the crowd to frenzy. His program is honest government, slashing bureaucracy, building roads and power plants, and turning private enterprise loose for progress. He describes his own nationalism as "grownup, vaccinated and old enough to vote." Quadros' main handicap: the streak of eccentricity that led him to pull out of the race one week and jump back in almost immediately (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). Betting odds last week: about even...
Says DEMAG: "The Americans pull out a blueprint, but we do a hand-drawn design specifically tailored to the customer's wishes." The U.S. also often falls down in the quantity and quality of its salesmen abroad. European and Japanese traders flood their markets with salesmen, make sure they are well-educated specialists with a solid knowledge of the language and the market. By contrast, the U.S. company often sends a man who does not even know the language, has so much ground to cover that he can answer queries only by mailing off a catalogue-printed in English...
...indeed be beautiful. Not only were the brass and high-ranking non corns on Okinawa enjoying the privilege of private bathing beaches and their well-appointed clubs; even privates and corporals could go to their own pleasure domes for evening relaxation. Each evening, busloads of pretty Okinawan hostesses pull up to the blue-and-white-striped awning before the Kadena Airmen's Club (for airmen up to corporal's rank), and the gaily chattering girls-each of whom has passed a physical exam-hurry inside to dance with and entertain G.I.s. The charge for an evening...
...Foundation, Karplus set out to "isolate a small number of ideas that underlie all natural phenomena," make these understandable to children by "direct intuitive perception." He first tackled the concepts of position and direction, developed a course called "coordinates." He taught teachers to hook their index fingers together and pull. Said he: "That's the beginning of Newton's Third Law."- Using his curriculum's careful exposition of contact, field and frictional forces, teachers and pupils brought wood blocks, rubber bands, magnets, Band-Aid boxes and buttons to class, found them suddenly interesting as demonstrations of physical...