Word: pulling
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...scheme to sell six meticulously forged versions of Mona Lisa to six gullible millionaires. Each would be duped into believing he had secretly bought the picture that had just been famously stolen from the Louvre. But in order to carry out the scam, it was necessary to pull off a highly publicized theft of the real picture. De Valfierno claimed that the scheme netted him millions, and that Peruggia has been well paid for his part, but had kept the original, thinking he could sell that...
...defeat came after a 4-0 shutout loss to Dartmouth earlier in the afternoon.“In the second game, we started making a comeback in the later innings,” freshman pitcher Rachel Brown said. “I really thought we were going to pull it out, and we’re obviously disappointed that we didn’t.”Brown, who started Game 1 and pitched in relief in the second, finished the day with 11 strikeouts. Her season total of 203 strikeouts far surpasses the previous all-time single season strikeout...
It’s never easy to go to a rival’s field with everything to lose and pull out a victory. But on Saturday, that’s exactly what the Harvard softball team did—twice.The Crimson traveled to Hanover, N.H. to take on Dartmouth in the first half of a crucial home-and-home series to decide the Ivy League North title. In front of a raucous Big Green crowd at Sachem Field, Harvard swept the twinbill, mounting a sixth-inning rally in each game to win by scores...
...level of comic masterpiece.In a musical marketplace where attempts at indie rock humor that fall flat are a dime a dozen, Super Furry Animals truly stand out. They have two key strengths: an acute sense of the ridiculous and a wonderful sense of timing. Any band that can pull off the lines “I look like a loser / Coming from a gutter” and “It’s cool to find what keeps us all together” without the slightest hint of cutesy or pretension has earned the right to sing almost anything...
Fears of getting a killer bug are sweeping across the Mexican capital as reports erupted about an epidemic of swine influenza that is said to have killed dozens in recent weeks. The government ordered all schools and universities in Mexico City shut and advised people to pull their children out of nurseries and avoid busy places such as restaurants, bars and cinemas. Pharmacies rapidly sold out of hygienic masks and vitamin supplements. Many clinics stuck signs on their doors advising they had run out of influenza vaccines. (See pictures from the last outbreak of bird...