Word: pulling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...city council voted unanimously for you as mayor. How did you pull that...
...year at Harvard. Li said that their first official date was in downtown Boston, where they went ice skating. “He didn’t know how to skate,” Li reminisced, “but he was happy to be there and happier to pull me down with him.” Cai’s mother told a story about how Peter, originally named Wei, got his first name. “When Peter was three years old, our friends told us to give him an American name” she said...
...their final tournament has given the Crimson a good look at the top teams from its region, and it prepares for dual meet competition beginning in January with a positive mindset. “Looking around at all the other players, we can definitely hold our own and pull off quite a few upsets,” Peterzan said. “This is going to be a year of big improvement...
...McCain seemed tired, as if he had been up too many late nights, and at times his answers meandered through a series of only tangentially connected sentences. But his central argument - that the race is not over, that he might still pull this thing out - is not completely unreasonable. It is not just that McCain has stared long odds in the face before and triumphed, as he did when his campaign collapsed in the summer of 2007, financially broke and in disarray. Back then, trusted friends advised him to withdraw rather than suffer a humiliating defeat. Even some...
...majorities in Congress. That kind of pivot hasn't happened in this race, though over the weekend conservative writer David Frum openly called on McCain to do just that for the good of the party. Scott Reed, who ran Dole's '96 campaign, says he believes McCain could still pull off a victory. "I think Schmidt's strategy has brought [McCain] back and kept it from being a blowout," he says. "It can be done...