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Word: pulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fiancé took Bird as his date and I went with another boy. She didn't like to be called Lady Bird, so we'd call her Bird to get her little temper going. My mother would call her Cat. She'd say, 'All right, pull your claws in, Cat.' And when the rest of the gang was in the house. Bird would sneak in the back door and talk to my mother. She was a chatterbox. But she was timid. When she'd get in a crowd, she'd clam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: The First Lady Bird | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

Indeed, industry has gone all out, and often far out, to pull in the public with such delights as Coca-Cola's instant world tour (from a street in Hong Kong to a cruise ship off Rio) and Pepsi's unforgettable boat ride through a Disneyland of wildly singing, dancing dolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fair, Leisure: What Can The Matter Be? | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...paratroopers in a jump onto the Hoabinh battlefield of North Viet Nam, scene of a French defeat that was only slightly less disastrous than Dienbienphu, carried out a valiant rearguard action covering the French retreat. Khanh finished the war, in which he was wounded (he still likes to pull up his shirt to show his scars), as a lieutenant colonel in charge of a regimental combat team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Toward the Showdown? | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...felt the haul-ropes pull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poems in the Summer School Poetry Contest | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...London benefit, the "glad" girl shook a dazzling pair of legs and uncorked some un-Disneyfied bumps and grinds. In a separate bit, she vanished into a box as a magician's assistant, but demonstrated conclusively that she is one child star who won't need to pull a disappearing act when she gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 31, 1964 | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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