Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...dust is thrown from comets and circles the sun in their orbits. The pieces range from the size of marbles to that of pin-points. If one is heavy enough, the gravitational pull of Jupiter draws it from its path; otherwise it spirals slowly into...
This decision, however, is overruled by the larger number who would not allow appeasement, even partial appeasement. "Try to maintain a line at the 38th parallel," they say, "pour in as many men as we need to hold on." If we can not do this now they say, pull out and then go back in again, We cannot afford to lose face in the East, this school claims...
...Nungs (residents of Moncay region, born in Indo-China but of Chinese origin and speaking the Cantonese dialect) are putting their piasters on what they think is the winning number. Little shops are open, too. Come what may, these people are not going to Haiphong. If the French pull out and the Communists move in, they expect to keep on doing business...
...want to touch Hoppy. The women want to kiss him and the men want to hug him. They hold up their little babies to him . . . their own flesh & blood. What do those babies know of Hoppy? . . . Nothing ... but the men & women want Hoppy to see those kids. Crowds never pull at Hoppy or try to tear his clothes. If they start pushing, I just say, 'Now kids ... be good kids'-I call them all kids, grown-ups and all-and they settle down." After a moment he added moodily: "Sometimes I can feel hands all over me when...
...Stranger" has less plot than a poor musical. Ostensibly, it is the tale of a gambler and petty thief who attempts to reform his life. After meeting the millionairess and developing the first symptoms of love, however, he is forced to team with one of his old buddies to pull one last job, a stickup of a gambling house. He is, of course, asking for it, and "it" almost catches up with him during the last reel. In the finale, he interrupts his now full-blown romance to spend three quiet years of atonement in prison...