Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...mother-and apparently to the baby-is virtually eliminated. The chignon subsides within a couple of hours after birth. A major advantage, say the Britons, though Americans disagree, is that the ventouse can be used to speed a slow labor in its early stages by synchronizing a pull on the handle with the mother's own contractions...
Matched against Poland's Teodor Kocerka in last week's Diamond Sculls, Mackenzie shot to his customary early lead, then settled down to his customary gamesmanship. At the finish. Mackenzie let Kocerka pull close before spurting hard to leave the Pole completely exhausted. He won by half a length and became the first man in the 20th century to take the Diamond Sculls four straight times. "It was a nice little dabble." said debonair Sculler Mackenzie. "But I was just playing...
...Major Weakness. What many economists find most encouraging is that there is no single weak sector that threatens to pull the economy down. Inventory buying is expected to remain at the $5 billion level in the third quarter, and may rise in the final period. Says a top Administration economist: "That drag is behind us." Plant and equipment spending, although trimmed slightly, will still be 14% ahead of last year and close to the 1957 record of $37 billion. Federal highway spending under the federal aid program will double to $1.4 billion in the next three months; Government purchasing will...
...into a thousand shreds of shrapnel, a blinding ball of flame, and a column of smoke 1,000 feet tall. Betancourt's car was hurled onto the center grass strip, and burst into flames. The President and his Minister managed to push open the left rear door and pull Mrs. Henriquez to safety. Badly burned, Chauffeur Valero and a presidential aide, Colonel Ramón Armas Peréz, tumbled out of the front seat...
...Stung by midseason defeats, Harvard's crew regained some prestige by a seven-length trouncing of Yale in the annual four-mile pull down Connecticut's Thames River, while California beat Navy by a length in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta at Syracuse. ¶ After his talent-loaded San Francisco Giants had lost three straight to the league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates and dropped four games behind, Owner Horace Stoneham fired long-suffering Bill Rigney as manager, brought in Tom Sheehan, 66, chief scout and onetime minor-league manager, with the cold promise that...